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Rinse and repeat
You should never step away and not know what’s going on.
Amanda Zhu
Co-founder, Recall.ai
You’ve made it to the end of the journey! Time to let the company run on autopilot!
Just kidding, can you imagine?
You can never quite mark the moment, but most companies totally remake themselves every few years (and sometimes faster).
Your go-to-market motion and sales process work…for now. You have product-market fit…for now. You have a steady pipeline…for now.
You may no longer be the primary seller, but you are the watchman at the gates. The moment PMF starts to wobble, or your sales process starts to break, you must sound the alarm and adjust.
Our founder friends told us that they still step in on strategic deals and, this is important, continue to commit to the continuous discovery process.
Every founder we spoke with remained involved in the sales process
“You're continually looking for new repeatable motions or playbooks to build, whether that's new segments or new product lines,” says Riya Grover, co-founder of Sequence. “Your sales process is always in evolution.”
You’re not done. You just have the next level to get to.
“Product-market fit is a little bit like gears in a car. Most startups never click into first. And it's very important to do that. But first is not gonna take you where you need to go,” says Mark Tanner, co-founder of Qwilr. “The power of founder-led sales, even though you start to decrease it over time, is still having that feedback loop that helps you click into second gear."
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Throughout this guide, we’ve talked about the importance of capturing every conversation, pattern-matching across calls, and building a system that compounds your learning, ultimately helping you close more deals (minus all the typical CRM busywork). That’s what we built Clarify to do. It’s the autonomous CRM that updates itself so you can focus on what this guide is actually about: selling.
This guide was built using 1,000+ sales calls and interviews with 11 founders. It’s informed by our winding journey of building Clarify from the ground up.
What you just completed is the most comprehensive resource available (we know, we looked). But it is no substitute for the hard-fought lessons from being in the arena.
So, when you’re ready, close the browser tab and get back in front of real people.
And if you need a little help, we’ll always be here for founders like you.
– Your friends at Clarify
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