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1257 points adrianh | 7 comments | | HN request time: 0.831s | source | bottom
1. oasisbob ◴[] No.44491712[source]
Anyone who has worked at a B2B startup with a rouge sales team won't be surprised at all by quickly pivoting the backlog in response to a hallucinated missing feature.
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2. toomanyrichies ◴[] No.44491927[source]
I'm guessing you meant "a sales team that has gone rogue" [1], not "a sales team whose product is rouge" [2]? ;-)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rouge_(cosmetics)

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3. PeterStuer ◴[] No.44492102[source]
Rogue? In the B2B space it is standard practice to sell from powerpoints, then quickly develop not just features but whole products if some slideshow got enough traction to elicit a quote. And it's not just startups. Some very big players in this space do this routinely.
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4. elcapitan ◴[] No.44493675[source]
Rouge océan, peut-être ;)
5. NooneAtAll3 ◴[] No.44494907[source]
what does B2B mean?
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6. tomschwiha ◴[] No.44494968[source]
Business-to-Business (selling your stuff primarily to other businesses)
7. wmeredith ◴[] No.44499385[source]
Fake it 'til you make is time-tested human strategy.