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Doug: Here’s a little background on Emergence: We are hyper focused on B2B enterprise SAAS companies. I continue to do what I love doing, which is helping startups figure out how to build and grow. Coining sales productivity. I went to Salesforce after that, and that’s where we coined the term “sales productivity.”
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