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> If ads and sales are on the same continuum, then the world's best salespeople are engineers, data scientists, and product managers.

I stumbled over that sentence. I genuinely don’t understand what this means in context. Can someone explain the metaphor and/or the point that’s being made here?

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I think he is saying that since digital advertising generates so much revenue the best sales and marketing professionals (by revenue generated) are the engineers, data scientists, and PMs who develop the ad-tech that enables those things. I don't agree with him, but I think that's his argument.

I think this is almost a "not even wrong"* situation.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_even_wrong

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