Our eighth guest is Greg Freeman, VP Revenue at kleene.ai. 

Owen and Greg discuss everything around a company’s first sales hire. Including: 

- Why and when you should be looking to recruit 

- The options that a Founder has 

- The issues with recruiting an SDR or ‘the corporate’ as your first sales hire 

- Misconceptions and issues around recruiting from a competitor

- How do you know what you’re hiring if you don’t know what you’re hiring? 

- What you should be looking for as a Founder 

- What you should do as a first sales hire 

- Why Founders shouldn’t treat their first sales hire as an employee 

- What Founders should factor into package discussions / what first sales hires should negotiate on