Which teams or industries should I consider applying for in Fastly's sales department, and what makes them appealing options for potential employees?

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I would say media/entertainment are better than any other department. Higher potential to earn. It’s rough in the general commerical / enterprise space unless you have a killer territory.

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Fastly has a solid product mix with amazing performance and a true product/market fit. They are well known and respected in the industry. 
I'd recommend Enterprise if you get can get in. 
Keep in mind that "traditional" CDN (think broadcast media caching and software downloads) is highly commoditized.  Fastly profitability will come from Security and Compute at Edge functions vs traditional caching (see annual report for more details).

Look to the industries that do well (SaaS) vs media (online newspapers/news) where there will be more opportunities. Not to say there aren't opportunities with media, because there are.  But the media companies mindsets may be different than a SaaS company. Fastly has traditionally done very well with forward leaning companies vs the industry laggards who tend not to broaden their view of what could be done outside of CDN.

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Which teams or industries should I consider applying for in Fastly's sales department, and what makes them appealing options for potential employees?