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The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales

news.ycombinator.com Rob Snyder 2025-10-19 03:17:45

PSA: There’s now a companion podcast! We go into way more detail on YouTube / Spotify! I have now watched hundreds of founders’ sales calls. And in every single founder’s call, I find the same foundational error playing out in a thousand different ways. It causes the founder (and the potential customer) a world of pain. If you feel uncomfortable selling, or if your sales calls don’t feel smooth, this is probably why. We all seem to have the most basic misconception about sales, a backwards ide

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Zscaler data breach exposes customer info after Salesloft Drift compromise

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-20 01:00:00

Cybersecurity company Zscaler warns it suffered a data breach after threat actors gained access to its Salesforce instance and stole customer information, including the contents of support cases. This warning follows the compromise of Salesloft Drift, an AI chat agent that integrates with Salesforce, in which attackers stole OAuth and refresh tokens, enabling them to gain access to customer Salesforce environments and exfiltrate sensitive data. In an advisory, Zscaler says that its Salesforce

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Tesla releases Model Y Performance in Europe — will it staunch the bleeding?

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-22 08:05:48

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla is offering a new performance version of its Model Y crossover for the European market. The new variant is aimed at boosting the company’s sales on the continent, which have been in free fall for most of the year thanks to growing

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Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-10-22 16:15:00

Google is advising users of the Salesloft Drift AI chat agent to consider all security tokens connected to the platform compromised following the discovery that unknown attackers used some of the credentials to access email from Google Workspace accounts. In response, Google has revoked the tokens that were used in the breaches and disabled integration between the Salesloft Drift agent and all Workspace accounts as it investigates further. The company has also notified all affected account hold

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Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-23 08:09:24

Google now reports that the Salesloft Drift breach is larger than initially thought, warning that attackers also used stolen OAuth tokens to access a small number of Google Workspace email accounts in addition to stealing data from Salesforce instances. "Based on new information identified by GTIG, the scope of this compromise is not exclusive to the Salesforce integration with Salesloft Drift and impacts other integrations,' warns Google. "We now advise all Salesloft Drift customers to treat

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Tesla Sales Nosedive 40% in Europe as Market Share Drops to 1%

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 03:50:16

Sales of Elon Musk’s Tesla have plunged by approximately 40% in Europe over the first half of 2025, according to new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). The decline is just the latest effect from increased pressure from Chinese automakers—particularly BYD—that are gaining ground in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) market on the continent. But European consumers have also shown a dislike for Musk’s very visible politics, which may be making it a less p

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Nvidia earnings takeaways: A 'full steam' AI spend, but China uncertainty remains

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-24 08:57:02

Nvidia stock fluctuated on Thursday as investors digested the company's latest earnings report, which signaled robust AI demand but provided little clarity on China. Sales surged 56% in the quarter to $46.74 billion, which was roughly in line Wall Street's projected $46.06 billion, according to LSEG. The company reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.05, just topping the $1.01 per share estimated by analysts. The better-than-expected results were clouded by concerns over Nvidia's future in

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Tesla Sales Nosedive 40% in Europe As Market Share Drops To 1%

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-24 08:50:16

Sales of Elon Musk’s Tesla have plunged by approximately 40% in Europe over the first half of 2025, according to new data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA). The decline is just the latest effect from increased pressure from Chinese automakers—particularly BYD—that are gaining ground in the rapidly expanding electric vehicle (EV) market on the continent. But European consumers have also shown a dislike for Musk’s very visible politics, which may be making it a less p

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Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines as data center revenue surges 56%

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-26 00:56:49

Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenue on Wednesday, and said sales growth this quarter will remain above 50%, signaling to Wall Street that demand for artificial intelligence infrastructure shows no sign of fading. The stock slipped in extended trading as data center revenue came up short of estimates for the second quarter in a row. Here's how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG: Earnings per share : $1.05 adjusted vs. $1.01 estimated :

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Nvidia reports second-quarter earnings after the bell

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-10-26 16:00:01

Nvidia reports fiscal second-quarter earnings on Wednesday after the bell. Here's how Nvidia is expected to do versus LSEG consensus estimates: Earnings per share : $1.01, adjusted : $1.01, adjusted Revenue: $46.02 billion That would represent 53% year-over-year revenue growth for Nvidia, which carries a market cap of more than $4 trillion and is already the most valuable company in the world. That type of growth would add to a streak of explosive growth for the chipmaker, which has been on

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EVs are getting a temporary Trump bump thanks to expiring incentives

theverge.com Andrew J. Hawkins 2025-10-27 00:39:34

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. President Donald Trump has made no secret of his disdain for electric vehicles. On the first day of his presidency, he signed an executive order to eliminate EV incentives that he has often falsely portrayed as an “electric vehicle mand

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Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-10-27 04:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Salesforce is betting that rigorous testing in simulated business environments will solve one of enterprise artificial intelligence’s biggest problems: agents that work in demonstrations but fail in the messy reality of corporate operations. The cloud software giant unveiled three major AI research initiatives this week, including CRMArena

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Infinite Threads

technologyreview.com Sarah Foote 2025-10-27 23:00:00

Textiles account for 5% of landfill space—and clothing made with polyester can take up to 200 years to decompose. Massachusetts tackled the problem by banning disposal of clothing and fabrics in 2022. And Infinite Threads, a spinoff of the Undergraduate Association Sustainability Committee, is addressing it by collecting lightly used clothing from the MIT community and selling it for $2 to $6 per item at popup sales held several times each semester. “Our goal is simple: We want to keep clothing

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Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-28 07:12:53

Hackers breached sales automation platform Salesloft to steal OAuth and refresh tokens from its Drift chat agent integration with Salesforce to pivot to customer environments and exfiltrate data. The ShinyHunters extortion group claims responsibility for these additional Salesforce attacks. Salesloft's SalesDrift is a third-party platform that connects the Drift AI chat agent with a Salesforce instance, allowing organizations to sync conversations, leads, and support cases into their CRM. Acc

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US EV Sales Are Booming—for Now

wired.com Aarian Marshall 2025-10-29 19:00:00

In March, President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk appeared on the lawn of the White House to show off a line of electric vehicles, transforming, for a moment, the commander in chief into the car salesman in chief. Five months later, Musk and Trump are no longer on friendly terms, the red Tesla that Trump purchased during that appearance has left the White House grounds, and the president signed into law earlier this summer what was known as the One Big Beautiful Bill, which yanks federal

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A bug saved the company

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-10-27 23:55:56

In the realm of computers, bugs are generally a bad thing. Every year, our team ships dozens of free updates to eliminate bugs that are an inescapable byproduct of the countless variables in software development. Rarely, though, a bug can be beneficial. Back in 2002, a software bug saved Rogue Amoeba. It started when we shipped the very first version of Audio Hijack. We wanted to give potential customers the ability to fully test the app prior to purchase, but we weren’t sure how best to limit

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Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-10-30 15:48:51

U.S. insurance giant Farmers Insurance has disclosed a data breach impacting 1.1 million customers, with BleepingComputer learning that the data was stolen in the widespread Salesforce attacks. Farmers Insurance is a U.S.-based insurer that provides auto, home, life, and business insurance products. It operates through a network of agents and subsidiaries, serving more than 10 million households nationwide. The company disclosed the data breach in an advisory on its website, saying that its da

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Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

wired.com Jason Koebler 2025-11-08 23:00:00

The salesperson hawking Brother printers on Taobao works hard—like, really hard. At any time of the day, even when there’s no audience on the Chinese ecommerce platform, the same woman wearing a white shirt and black skirt is always livestreaming, boasting about the various features of different office printers. She has a phone in one hand and often checks it as if to read a sales script or monitor the viewer comments coming in. “My friends, I’ve gotta plug this game-changing office tool that c

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Tesla Making Yet Another Desperate Move in Europe

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-11 03:00:52

Tesla has been struggling in Europe, where its sales are down across the continent. In the United Kingdom, the company’s sales reportedly dropped 60 percent last month. With those cratering numbers, the EV firm appears to have made another, shall we say, incredibly generous offer to locals, as the company continues to combat lagging sales. British newspaper The Times reports that Tesla has nearly halved the monthly cost of leasing one of its cars in the U.K. Elon Musk’s company has been “forced

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Best Early Labor Day Mattress Sales (2025)

wired.com Julia Forbes 2025-11-14 20:53:27

The best early Labor Day mattress sales are nearly here, and if you've been looking for a sign from the universe to upgrade your bed, consider this it. I've been a professional mattress tester for five years, so I'm plugged in to what's going on in the mattress world (we're constantly scoping out new additions to our best mattresses list) and can keep track of the sales that really are the ones to watch … and which ones you can skip until Cyber Monday. While white pants are about to be out of s

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Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-17 16:20:02

During the pandemic, movie theaters notably struggled, as social distancing restrictions all but temporarily killed their business model. Many smaller, independent theaters went out of business permanently. However, since the pandemic has ebbed, the film industry has slowly recovered. Attendance in theaters is not exactly where it was prior to the pandemic, but attendance is significantly higher than it was during Covid, and continues to climb. A new article published by The Guardian suggests t

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The Galaxy S25 series might be more popular than all other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones combined

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-11-19 12:27:53

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR The Galaxy S25 reportedly sold more units than any other brand’s flagship. The Galaxy S25 series is also claimed to have outsold all other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones combined. The leaker, who shared these statistics, says this makes the regular variant of the Snapdragon 8 Elite appear to be a “minority.” Samsung’s efforts with the Galaxy S25’s subtle redesign and extensive focus on AI features appear to have paid off. Last week, we learned about the brand

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Tax-Free Back-to-School Sales 2025: You Still Have Time to Save in These 3 States

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-21 02:15:04

Don't miss these tax-free back-to-school sales if you want to save money on supplies. Kryssia Campos/Getty Images It's back-to-school season, and parents everywhere are on the search for the best deals to get their kids ready for the 2025 to 2026 school year. With inflation making everyday items more expensive than ever, timing your purchases during a sales tax holiday can keep more money in your wallet. These tax-free shopping events typically center on back-to-school items, offering discount

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Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-22 16:03:47

Hackers have released stolen data belonging to US insurance giant Allianz Life, exposing 2.8 million records with sensitive information on business partners and customers in ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Last month, Allianz Life disclosed that it suffered a data breach when the personal information for the "majority" of its 1.4 million customers was stolen from a third-party, cloud-based CRM system on July 16th. While the company did not name the provider, BleepingComputer first repor

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NVIDIA may give US government a cut of its profits to sell AI chips to China

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-26 23:00:03

The debate over whether AI chipmakers should be allowed to sell their products to China has taken an unusual turn. The US government has reportedly given NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) permission to make the sales but for one big catch: 15 percent of the sales. The news was first reported by The Financial Times, which cited multiple people familiar with the agreement. In July, NVIDIA announced that the US government would approve export licenses to sell its H20 AI GPUs after blocking t

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Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

techcrunch.com Ram Iyer 2025-11-27 06:09:13

The AI chip race narrative used to be about U.S. national security, but apparently now it’s about tariffs: Nvidia and AMD have agreed to pay the U.S. government 15% of the revenue they make from sales of high-end AI chips to China in exchange for licenses to sell to those chips in the country, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. According to the FT’s government source, Nvidia will share revenues from sales of its H20 AI chips in China, and AMD would share a cut of MI308 chip

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Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-27 10:15:59

Google has confirmed that a recently disclosed data breach of one of its Salesforce CRM instances involved the information of potential Google Ads customers. "We're writing to let you know about an event that affected a limited set of data in one of Google's corporate Salesforce instances used to communicate with prospective Ads customers," reads a data breach notification shared with BleepingComputer. "Our records indicate basic business contact information and related notes were impacted by

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Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-01 02:05:34

In June, Google said it unearthed a campaign that was mass-compromising accounts belonging to customers of Salesforce. The means: an attacker pretending to be someone in the customer's IT department feigning some sort of problem that required immediate access to the account. Two months later, Google has disclosed that it, too, was a victim. The series of hacks are being carried out by financially motivated threat actors out to steal data in hopes of selling it back to the targets at sky-high pr

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Wondering who bought the Galaxy S25 Edge? Turns out, A lot of people did.

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-02 09:48:52

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR A Twitter leaker has posted purported Galaxy S25 series sales data, including figures for the S25 Edge. The figures suggest that the Galaxy S25 Edge sold 650,000 units during its first month of sales. The numbers also point to significant growth for the Galaxy S25 series compared to the S24 series. Samsung launched the Galaxy S25 Edge a few months ago, and initial reports suggested that it saw lower-than-expected sales. Now, a leaker has posted apparent

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Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-12-06 06:16:39

Danish jewelry giant Pandora has disclosed a data breach after its customer information was stolen in the ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks. Pandora is one of the largest jewellery brands in the world, with 2,700 locations and over 37,000 employees. "We are writing to inform you that your contact information was accessed by an unauthorized party through a third-party platform we use," reads a Pandora data breach notification sent to customers. "We stopped the access and have further stren

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Latest Tech News

The buyer-pull and seller-push theories of sales

Zscaler data breach exposes customer info after Salesloft Drift compromise

Tesla releases Model Y Performance in Europe — will it staunch the bleeding?

Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger

Google warns Salesloft breach impacted some Workspace accounts

Tesla Sales Nosedive 40% in Europe as Market Share Drops to 1%

Nvidia earnings takeaways: A 'full steam' AI spend, but China uncertainty remains

Tesla Sales Nosedive 40% in Europe As Market Share Drops To 1%

Nvidia beats on top and bottom lines as data center revenue surges 56%

Nvidia reports second-quarter earnings after the bell

EVs are getting a temporary Trump bump thanks to expiring incentives

Salesforce builds ‘flight simulator’ for AI agents as 95% of enterprise pilots fail to reach production

Infinite Threads

Salesloft breached to steal OAuth tokens for Salesforce data-theft attacks

US EV Sales Are Booming—for Now

A bug saved the company

Farmers Insurance data breach impacts 1.1M people after Salesforce attack

Chinese ‘Virtual Human’ Salespeople Are Outperforming Their Real Human Counterparts

Tesla Making Yet Another Desperate Move in Europe

Best Early Labor Day Mattress Sales (2025)

Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival

The Galaxy S25 series might be more popular than all other Snapdragon 8 Elite phones combined

Tax-Free Back-to-School Sales 2025: You Still Have Time to Save in These 3 States

Hackers leak Allianz Life data stolen in Salesforce attacks

NVIDIA may give US government a cut of its profits to sell AI chips to China

Nvidia, AMD may sell high-end AI chips to China if they pay US a cut

Google confirms data breach exposed potential Google Ads customers' info

Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it

Wondering who bought the Galaxy S25 Edge? Turns out, A lot of people did.

Pandora confirms data breach amid ongoing Salesforce data theft attacks

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