SaaStr

JANUARY 4, 2024

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Jason Warner , who was CTO of GitHub before and during my time as COO there (and a former partner at Redpoint!) What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? We are currently investing out of our 9th Early Stage fund, a $650M vehicle.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Number two: Your efforts don’t necessarily convert to revenue. Traffic and impressions don’t always equate to resonance, and they certainly don’t guarantee more revenue. is a much worthier investment for your 2020. We were just mimicking things that we thought real businesses should do.". Is content marketing dead?

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Hiring managers are also just trying to sell as well. Sam Jacobs : What’s the business model? Users come to us all the time and they say, Hey, this company looks awesome. Are they hiring? That goes to the hiring manager. And if you get hired, RepVue will actually pay you $500. Sam Jacobs: Oh my.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model. We were talking to Sean Place, who was the co founder and CTO, and it turned out that they were just giving gift cards to these drivers, but they had no way to authorize the right transaction at the right time for the right amount. It’s us.

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Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? Obviously if you target enterprise customers, you usually have a very large ACV (Annual Contract Value) and the product usually is complex. You need to invest at least a year or even two years.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

And then the sale will commence as far as the people and this was, we were multiple millions of dollars of revenue until I took the first call. So look, again, we were, the product was out there, we were at revenue in our case. So you literally went from a family ran business in some ways to something a little bit different.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Loren, among other things, has spearheaded Shopify Plus, which is Shopify’s enterprise platform from the early days, to now announced today almost 30% of the revenue. And they had no choice because their revenue went to zero. From contract signature to launch. It was 20 something percent when we did the podcast, right?

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. Harry : MuleSoft’s revenue has to be Malta’s GDP.

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Hacking Revenue

AUGUST 4, 2016

We can put together a WordPress website and we have some fancy badges in CodeAcademy, but no CTO in his right mind will let either of us touch their production environment and/or keyboard. But we do know how online businesses work. We know the tools, we know the methods and we know how to hire and manage people.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Which role should you hire for first? For starters, your first hire should be someone who can complement your skills, someone who is strong in areas where you’re weak, but it goes much deeper than that. I am guessing it’s probably the hardest problem to solve, hiring a job, let alone at this level. And for good reason.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 20, 2024

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. It costs a huge amount of money to provide inference for these models. Adam: Yeah.

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