By Larry Chiang
“Your face looks like a fake mask.”
– rando comment

LARRY CHIANG says: “Not a mask! My face is pure joy bc I read #WTDTYAHBS. #ch6 =sales and distribution work.”
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Not a mask! My face is pure joy bc I read #WTDTYAHBS. #ch6 = cold called at Daily Illini to sell display advertising. #blessed pic.twitter.com/x5NiJNxQFW
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Later, I coached up Stanford Daily reps on how to sell
We sold display ads by cold-calling tech bloggers to buy display advertising. If they called back…, it’s a pretty large win psychologically.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Cold calling was effen miserable. twitter.com/larrychiang/st…
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When you meet a kindred spirit (person who also crawled through the mud tunnel that is distribution tasks. Aka we “did things that didn’t scale”.
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Selling cars at village in Naperville was effen miserable. twitter.com/larrychiang/st…
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Andy Duffrain had to crawl thru 3 football fields of sewage to be free. Selling is like taking a pooh shower where dirt is your ONLY soap twitter.com/larrychiang/st…
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