0:00 The theory behind a sales call is if you have pull, you're going to rip the thing out of my hands. So, I have a very specific structure of a sales call for getting into discovery and then transitioning out of discovery. How can people use this framework to help them come up with ideas that are more likely to actually be successful? >> One of the main mistakes people make is thinking that pull is a thing that a company has. It's a thing a person has. You're not selling to SpaceX. You're selling to the head of legal at SpaceX
0:30 who has a project on her to-do list that they can't do themselves. >> You have this idea of the Hail Mary approach. You're talking with people and they're like, "Oh my gosh, this is exactly what I need." A lot of the time that's not going to happen. That's also an opportunity to what I call throw the Hail Mary, which is is there anything on your to-do list that you would pay me to do right now? We're seeing if they try to buy. If they don't, cool. We've learned something. We can kind of keep iterating from there. If they do, okay, great. Now we might have something. Let's see if it repeats.
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