What were the products the LinkedIn people you reference were selling to these retailers? Put someone in charge of a name brand sales force and the fact they brag about 10% increase in sales is meaningless. What if the increase in sales boasted about was due to a retailer building out more stores or acquiring. Give the same person a difficult product to sell they might fail. This is all speculative nonsense.

Paragon was hired to do a job and should be given an adequate timeframe to produce results. What does it matter if they have 100 phones or one phone, the only measurement of whether they become a valuable asset is the results they achieve.