How DOSS exited founder-led sales by unlearning what made founder selling work

DOSS is building the operations cloud for physical-products companies — procurement, inventory management, and order management unified on a modern data platform, positioned as the layer that sits around the ERP general ledger rather than replacing it. In this episode of BUILDERS, Co-Founder and CEO Wiley Jones gets specific about what 22 months in market actually taught him: why nine of those months were spent selling to the wrong customers, what a single blunt conversation forced them to shut down an entire product line, and the exact mental model shift required to move from founder-led sales to a scalable GTM motion.

Topics Discussed:

• The "donut vs. donut hole" product framing — why DOSS deliberately stopped selling finance and accounting

• How DOSS stress-tested its ICP by mapping slam-dunk wins against catastrophic failures — and what they cut

• The ecosystem wake-up call from a former public-company CEO that changed DOSS's go-to-market architecture in a month

• What founder-led sales actually has to unlearn — and why your reps aren't the problem

• How to diagnose what kind of sales leader your company actually needs right now

• Why DOSS is going to coffee trade shows instead of SaaS conferences — and the field marketing logic behind it

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