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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Khosla Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith Rabois is an investment partner at Khosla Ventures where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well. I probably invested in 80 or so, maybe 85 companies. Lloyed : Definitely.

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Congratulations, You’ve Created a Category. Now What?

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Now is the time to invest in driving growth. You created a category, you’re presumably the market share leader in the category, and now your job is to make sure you stay that way. Another is Salesforce’s systematic move across buyers, from VP of Sales to VP of Service to VP of Marketing. Lateral expansion.

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Top Lessons in Building Great Teams from Keith Rabois and Founders Fund (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Keith Rabois is a General Partner at Founders Fund where he focuses on consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health investments. Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well. I probably invested in 80 or so, maybe 85 companies. Lloyed : Definitely. Keith : Yeah.

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Top 10 Lessons Learned in Getting to $100M ARR with Adaptive Insights (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. What you wanted it to be, what you wanted behaviors to be, how you were going to go to market, what your product market fit was? But, find those areas, and when you attach it, it’s easier to get investment. That was perpetual license software.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. When you meet with Bill and you talk about marketing, in a not a sales driven, but you invest into marketing, what are the KPIs? We didn’t do any paid marketing, but we did lot of PR.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We are an enterprise-focused VC fund in New York, and we invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and it’s both a privilege and a blast to be here with one of our WorkBench portfolio companies, DialPad with Craig Walker, founder and CEO, and Dan O’Connell, chief strategy officer and former CEO of Talk IQ.