I'm always amazed at how bad so many large companies' sales teams are. You can literally be a company with over $1B in revenue, and be actively trying to get a quote to purchase their product and they barely return emails or phone calls. I've experienced this multiple times over the past couple of decades. Lazy sales teams who you are trying to write a check to can't be bothered.

You can't keep good employees with pizza parties.

You keep them by making them feel safe.

Safe to speak up.
Safe to work comfortably.
Safe to be who they truly are.
Safe from upper management bullshit.
Safe that you will stand up for them relentlessly.

If you're a software dev and trying to build a side hustle/solo dev project and can't seem to get traction, please check out the article and hope it helps:

You've Been Trained To Solve The Wrong Problems

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Marcus Shockley

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