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Founder-Led Sales

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Lenny’s Podcast97 min

"Sell the alpha, not the feature": The enterprise sales playbook for $1M to $10M ARR

Jen Abel · Nov 9, 2025
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  • Founder-led sales is a competitive advantage because founders are the visionary and can spot budding insights that salespeople…
  • Write cold outreach that leads with relevance, a counterintuitive insight, and the problem rather than the solution, kept to…
  • Before buying tools, manually find and write thoughtful notes to about 30 prospects; use the response pattern to refine messaging…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 194

Hiring your early team

Oct 3, 2023 · 33 min
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Part six of Lenny Rachitsky's B2B startup series covers hiring an early team, organized around four questions: who to hire first, where to find people, how to persuade them to join, and when to bring on a salesperson…