The SaaS Metric That Looks Healthy While Your Revenue Dies
Pipeline coverage is the most celebrated, least questioned, and most dangerous number in SaaS. And your board is making decisions based on it right now.
6 min readWhere the comfortable assumptions about B2B revenue go to die.
Finance transformed. Healthcare transformed. Manufacturing transformed. Sales is still running techniques from the Reagan administration - and wondering why buyers won't return the call.
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Pipeline coverage is the most celebrated, least questioned, and most dangerous number in SaaS. And your board is making decisions based on it right now.
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$380K a year in sales tech. Fourteen integrations. Dashboards that could fill a trading floor. Forecast accuracy: 52%. Somewhere under all that software was a revenue problem nobody had bothered to diagnose.
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You trained your team. The first quarter looked great. By quarter three, everyone was back to doing what they did before. Here's why - and it's not a training problem.
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The average tenure of a SaaS VP of Sales is 18 months. Not because the talent pool is thin. Because the job is designed to be impossible.
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The deal was at 80% probability. Your champion was enthusiastic. Procurement was engaged. Then it went dark. Someone you never spoke to just said no - and nobody told you.
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In 2011, Aaron Ross gave us the SDR model. It changed everything. Then the math stopped working - and the industry's response was to do more of what was already failing.
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