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Imagine the sales commission on that one. “Here’s a $10B - Closed Won”.

When talking about deals that are the enterprise valuations of Fortune 500 companies, do you value the sale as if it were an acquisition? Or, some other way?

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Yeah except imagine instead when you should be due that commission but then they find a creative way to bake it into a new cushy position that they carve out just for you (with no more comms on other deals) and they pay that comm out to you over 5-10 years. And in the process, putting you in a position you dislike in an effort to hope you'll leave some of it at the table.

$2 billion, not 10.

Still a good reason to become a AWS or GCP sales engineer.

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