The Life of a Web3 BD Leader
- Start by getting a list of "potential partners" from the CEO
- Reach out to 50 of them, hear back from 5
- Finally get a meeting, only to find out they're not the decision maker
- Spend half a day trying to find out who actually makes the call
- Boom, they love it and are super interested!! ๐ฅ
- Write a whole business proposal, only to get ghosted...
- Go to a networking event & get pitched by illiterate technical founders
- 45 minutes later you realize they're just another RPC provider๐คฆ
- Event is a total bust, debate whether to go home or stay out
- You're in crypto & have no life anyway, so you stay
- Secure a new partnership at 2 AM over tequila shots
- Wake up hungover and ignore all inbound partnership requests
- Take a few of the meetings anyway to show you're busy
- Beg engineers to integrate with the partnerโs product, only to find out their API docs are a mess and not just a "5 minute integration"
- Get asked about KPIs for the new partnership; scramble to come up with something plausible
- Realize halfway through the integration that they only have 3 months of runway despite raising a $100M ICO in 2017
- See your competitor launch a partnership with them & go viral on CT
- Wonder if you should've pushed the deal anyway even though they're complete amateurs & gonna rug
- Suddenly remember the tequila-fueled conversation where the CTO promised the moon, decide to YOLO it
- Partnership goes through, and against all odds, it takes off
- Competitors start FUDing, and CT loves a good comeback story
- Spend the next week in a whirlwind of press releases & celebrations
- Wake up to find the partner did rug, but the memes are legendary
- The CEO calls it a "learning experience" and you're somehow promoted
- You realize: in web3, even when you lose, you kinda win ๐