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May 7, 2026
Sales vs. Finance: What Great Business Partnership Really Looks Like
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9:56Stephanie TroyGUEST
I tend to be a little more conservative in my forecasting approach, where I think others on my team are a little more ambitious, but there's no point of a forecast if it's not as close to accurate as possible, right? So we, we have to have a reality there and something in between.
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10:10Stephanie TroyGUEST
So I tend to focus on deal quality and pipeline quality rather than pipeline size.
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10:15Stephanie TroyGUEST
I think most traditional forecasting systems, they teach you in sales or that you learn throughout other companies or bigger companies in the world, is that, you know, you take a percent of what's in the pipeline based on the amount of deals that are in there.
8 MINS LATER

Glenn HopperHOST
Like, is there... [laughs] I don't know, I, I know very different industries, but I wonder if there's anything each industry could learn from the other, and maybe, uh, Stephanie, if you wanna take first shot at this one.