Well, now you&#x27;re into a different problem: If the market is efficient, what makes you think you can <i>afford</i> to pay them that much?<p>Your equity isn&#x27;t magically worth more than the equity of the company that already employs them. And if you give them a tremendous chunk of every sale they make, your COS is through the roof and you aren&#x27;t making any money.<p>You might go raise a ton of cash and spend it buying great salespeople so you can buy some MRR and ARR, but everyone else is playing the exact same game, so you don&#x27;t automatically raise more money than anyone else to spend on better salespeople.<p>In the end, what I am saying is that there is an efficiency in that market for salespeople such that anything you might think of doing to bring  them on board, their existing employer has already done. And possibly better than you ever could.