Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. And we felt that we couldn’t fail them and fail these new customers coming in at the same time.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Jason Lemkin: 50 reps in a new city that you’ve never met, and hired in 60 days when you’re in the low millions ARR. And then you keep resources on them because for the next three to six months, you’re taking feedback from customers and feeding it back into that new functionality or that new product.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today.

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