tomtunguz.com · 2019-05-30 · 2562d

As Your Sales Team Scales, Focus on Your Middle

When scaling a sales team, enablement efforts should prioritize improving middle-quartile performers rather than top performers, despite similar marginal revenue gains. This approach builds consistency across a larger population, reduces bookings concentration risk, and creates more predictable growth—a key characteristic of attractive businesses.

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Metrics in this report

Sales Quota Attainment

70-75%percent

target

Most sales teams aim for this attainment level

Sales Quota Attainment

86%percent

Hypothetical startup with 10 AEs generating $8.6M on $10M quota capacity