Build Sales Muscle Before You Chase Margins

25 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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In this advisory segment, the speaker urges early‑stage founders to deprioritize profit margins and instead concentrate on generating revenue and building robust sales and marketing capabilities. The core message is to get out in the field—knocking on doors and closing deals—to validate the business idea, gain confidence, and develop a sales muscle. While initial projects may have thin or even negative margins, they serve as learning experiences that ultimately strengthen the founder’s ability to sell and later achieve profitability.

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Early on, like the first few clients, don't worry about profit. I want you to be out there knocking on doors, closing deals. Profit, profit margin, all that good stuff is for later. Initially, number one goal is revenue. Number one goal is to grow the marketing and the sales muscles because that will give you confidence, that will prove, validate your business idea, your business, and then from there, you'll learn from the first few projects that maybe did not have an amazing margin Maybe you lost your shirt on those projects, but you learn from them and you build that muscle of being out there and you're selling.