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JordanBellend

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I need advice

option 1: stick at current company as an SDR with road to promotion (AE) in about 6 months. 

option 2: join new company and build up a brand new region, get a ton of shares and be part of the founding team of the new region.  progress from SDR to AE after 8-12 months. 

both companies have IPOs on the horizon, both pay competitively well. the question is, is it better to get in early and ride the wave of growth of a new company rapidly expanding or is it better to be at a slightly more mature company and ride the ranks? 
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braintank
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Enterprise Account Executive
Show me a company that doesn't have an IPO "on the horizon"...

Go with where you can W2 more and are happier.
hh456
Celebrated Contributor
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sales
my company. we have no ipo on the horizon. 
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
Mine neither.  
hh456
Celebrated Contributor
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sales
cheers
MitchandMurray
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Business Development Director
Personally I’d take the higher equity potential / more shares with less title change if it means you can get in on the ground floor and prove yourself by building out your region and leveraging the work to keep growing. It sounds like you have a lot of time left in your career and as such can afford to take greater risks.
UrAssIsSaaS
Arsonist
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SaaS Eater
Grass isn't always greener, but the way you wrote this makes me think you want #2 and are wooed by it, so go take it. 
Sunbunny31
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Sr Sales Executive 🐰
IPO = shares.  If Option 1 has no shares, I'd be looking at Option 2 for sure.
CaneWolf
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Call me what you want, just sign the damn contract
Option 1. I'm not buying company 2's bullshit.
CuriousFox
WR Officer
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🦊
But they want you to sooooo bad 😆
Diablo
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Sr. AE
As you mentioned both have IPOs on the horizon, I would assume both are selling well in the market. If I have to choose, I would go with the ones where I get paid well (again that depends whether I'm mentally ready to switch over)
Mobi85
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Regional Sales Manager
I guess one thing to look at is the compensation structures and make sure they align with what you want.
DataSlangah
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SAE
Go with where you will be more engaged and love the product.  I have taken jobs for the money, but I hated the product - I did okay.  I have taken less money, but super plugged into the product and industries I was selling into, and - spoiler alert - I make way more money and am happier.  

If you are not really into either company's products and you are using this job as a stepping stone, go for quicker progression.  
Flippinghubs
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Account Executive
option 1 
LordBusiness
Politicker
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Chief Revenue Officer
Which product is stronger? Which team has the higher % of reps hitting target? Which boss do you like better? Which has proven, robust processes to achieve goals? Anyone who tells you the “path to AE” is X months is selling you on a pile of bullshit.
AnchorPoint
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Business Coach
What you know is better than what you don't know... especially today.
SalesPharaoh
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Senior Account Executive
Speak to people who work at the ither company and learn whther its easy to sell the product? Plenty of buyers etc...that way you know whter it is greener or not

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