What I’ve learned from users
PGs take on why early stage VCs gain so much experience reminds me of my opinions on why car sales is the best sales experience.<p>I sold cars for almost a decade and was pretty good at it averaging 30 cars a month. That means every year I helped people sign for $16 million of products. In the end I probably sold 3000 cars for over $100 million.<p>(Note, I stayed in it way too long. I think most of these benefits would come from 2 years)<p>I made close to 50,000 phone calls, leaving probably 20,000 voicemails. I closed atleast 1000 deals purely on the phone.<p>I've heard excuses, stalls, lies, promises and objections over 10,000 times.<p>I've seen thousands of married couples discuss if they should go ahead with spending $30-100k. I've seen how they interact while waiting. (Nothing pains me more than couples, or moreso one party, playing games on their phones ignoring each other).<p>While there is a lot more to modern tech sales than just closing incoming leads, I think car sales is an accelerator course for interacting with, reading, and closing people.