The blood is still spurting from the open wound.

Some folks here did not get paid Friday and may not get paid this Wednesday (for bi-monthly). Some startups represented here have been in death mode for a weekend figuring out how to survive beyond March.

Let’s let the dust settle a little before we talk about our replacements.

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

not trying to replace anyone! trying to help us all figure out which direction to head

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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Forward on the current path. No one has blown out the bridge—so anyone diverting en mass would cause further panic.

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

fair.

who is taking all the laid off rockstars?
is anyone hiring all the laid off people or are they all stuck on the sevvy?

poweredbycaffeine

WR Lieutenant

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What is your true goal of this post?

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

1. find out who/what are winning while tech is losing to help the unfortunates in tech find a way to win
2. find trends. what are businesses spending money on? i'm not in tech, but i see the challenges and hear about them. i had tried to get into tech but i'm very hesitant. so i'm finding out where to look

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

There are still companies hiring, but who has open roles fluctuates as they are filled and/or as positions become available.

RedLightning

Politicker

Mid-Market AE

"Tech" is incredibly broad. ATM, companies are very risk averse, looking to reduce spend at the moment, and generally be more efficient.

So something that solves those problems is likely going to do well.

SaaSguy

Tycoon

Account Executive

AI is a part of tech?

Also, I think tech was in an a bubble for sure that is correcting, but tech and software products are embedded in every industry now. Non-tech verticals rely on tech from everything to accounting, fulfillment, GPS, CRM, etc.

Sunbunny31

Politicker

Sr Sales Executive 🐰

Tech has had bumps along the way since I've been in software sales. There was the dotcom crash in 2001, then the financial crisis in 2008 that had the effect of freezing tech purchases and affected hiring within software companies.

Tech itself is here to stay. There will be corrections - particularly with companies that aren't providing something of value, or are overly redundant. If your tech company is selling a widget that 20 other companies have, and yours isn't one of the top 4-5, you're probably not long for the world.

Just saying, tech isn't going anywhere. Our entire world depends on tech.

RedLightning

Politicker

Mid-Market AE

Agreed, we just did a hard off ramp from a hypergrowth phase. Things will normalize, but people won't be throwing as much cash around.

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

interesting take. good point

HVACexpert

Politicker

sales engineer

HVAC and construction are always looking for people.

A specific sector for some could be temperature controls. Automation of HVAC and lighting is a major portion of large buildings and is starting to extend into things like IP, cloud based services, subscription, mobile/remote applications, and building energy tacking and modeling

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

hmm hard for me to think about a replacement for tech....i mean there will always be new products...but are you asking if technology as a whole is going to be replaced?.....wouldn't AI just fall under tech?

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

i'm not trying to replace tech. i'm saying tech is getting destroyed. ALWAYS going to be a need for it, i'm certain it'll bounce back somehow. but business is about leverage. feels like tech is leaving a massive gap that something will try to fill it in with. trying myself to figure out what the right path is, and hopefully help someone else figure that out too. Something is coming to fill the vacuum

AI, yea it's tech probably.

TennisandSales

Politicker

Head Of Sales

ah ok just trying to understand where you are coming from.

im no expert in this side of things, but i feel like tech and even Saas is getting SO big, that it will always be here. but the next level of saas will be interesting to see.

braintank

Politicker

Enterprise Account Executive

Don't count tech out yet...

ventox35

Politicker

Sales Leader

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD AND HOLY I'M NOT REPLACING TECH OR COUNTING IT OUT.

Looking for trends. Where are the people being laid off going? Are they going anywhere? Is there an industry that's in short supply of top salespeople gobbling them up?

Kosta_Konfucius

Politicker

Sales Rep

Not sure, sometimes we just got to wait and see.

Maximas

Tycoon

Senior Sales Executive

Here in Egypt most of the sales roles for people I know are for B2C and they barely complain about it!

I recommend you to try something similar in the US as long as it's not as bad as tech.

Best of luck.

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