Comment by gruez
8 hours ago
>After a brief discussion, the emailer told me they got my details from Apollo.io
The landing page for Apollo.io says it's a "AI sales platform". In other words, a CRM. My guess is that someone on the sales team uploaded the entire customer list for sales purposes, not realizing the privacy implications.
> not realizing the privacy implications.
If only.
Linkedin got users to unwittingly to share their entire contact list by signing into gmail. What makes you think something similar wouldn't happen to some non-technical person on the sales team?
My point is I don't think one bit of this is accidental.
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Working in sales but not being able to handle customer data responsibly (for whatever reason). Not a good look.
You say this like it’s unusual. In my experience, sales is incentivized to only really care about closing deals. Everything else is often just a speed bump to them.