Eran Zinman

35 statements across 2 episodes · 14 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2025 by Eran Zinman · said 11 times in 7 episodes since 2024 · across every show →

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Jan 17, 2025
Disclosure
Zinman makes zero personal angel investments to focus entirely on Monday.com
“I don't do investments. I focus on a hundred percent of the company and I always try to set my own priorities because I think all those tools really distract you.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 52:47 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025
Insight
Goal setting should start with top-down targets, not bottom-up limits
“Maybe something that's not intuitive is about setting goals. Most people, when they set goals, they try to figure out what they can do. I never think about it this way. I'm thinking about what I want to achieve and then try to figure out a way to do it because…”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 52:07 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Opinion
Public market investors are far more sophisticated than private market investors
“Public market investors really surprised me. They are way more sophisticated than what I thought. I thought that initially when we went public, I thought that, you know, it's all about the private market, those investors, but public market investors are super …”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 45:44 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Monday.com Co-CEO Eran Zinman does not use email
“I, one of the reasons I didn't reply to your email is that I don't use email”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 28:54 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Zinman avoids reading competitor news to prevent founder anxiety
“When I built my first startup I remember that I used to log in to, you know, TechCrunch or read tech news, and every time I saw a competitor that I felt was competing with me, I felt this weird feeling in my stomach, and then I swore to myself, and I'm never g…”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 42:00 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025
Disclosure
Zinman found every stage of leading Monday.com as CEO to be unnatural
“Everyone, every, every stage now. I've never done it before. It's a new experience for me.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 1:00:27 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025
What-if
Early mockups yield the same feedback as 14 months of building
“Because after 14 months working on that product, people gave me feedback that if I've shown them like a mock-up or like an earlier version, I would get the same feedback and I would be in a totally different place today.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 4:25 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025
Insight
Personal credentials do not matter when building products for real users
“When you build an actual product that people need to use, nobody care about your achievement or knowledge or how much you know about anything. It's all about the product.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 4:58 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Insight
Quarterly earnings reports improve operational cadence for public companies
“I think that cadence of quarterly, you know, earning reports really add a great cadence to the company.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 46:06 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025
Assertion Supported
Zinman's first startup failed after 15 months of building without capital
“Like I built a product and I worked at it for about 14 or 15 months before launching it. And after 14 or 15 months, I didn't raise any money. I just felt I wasn't ready. It was a big failure. Like I ran out of money, personal money and ran out of energy.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 3:05 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Monday.com's co-CEOs walk home together daily in Tel Aviv to brainstorm
“We actually, we walk home every day, like walking. We live in Tel Aviv, so we walk every day. We spend hours just to think and talk about things.”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 50:16 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Held up
Zinman: Monday.com plans to be the default platform for enterprise AI orchestration
“And we want to make Monday the default place for people to build agents and to collaborate between agents and people. So essentially you'll build Monday, you build agents on the top of Monday. Those agents will output tables, docs, files. People will go over i…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 31:44 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Enterprise spending on software will grow 100x
“The time of software, how much companies are going to spend on software is going to be a hundred X for what it is today.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 0:34 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026
Disclosure
Zinman consumes 5 to 6 hours of content daily
“The amount of information that I acquire through podcast, blog posts, videos, I probably acquire like 5:06 hour content a day.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:09:40 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zinman: Salesforce and ServiceNow markets are open to AI competitors
“The way I look at this today, service dominated by ServiceNow, CRM dominated by Salesforce is open market today.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:00:31 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026
Insight
Zinman: AI developer productivity gains create new non-coding engineering bottlenecks
“On one hand, we see increase in personal productivity, but again, there's new bottlenecks you find each time you increase one of those productivities, and basically we're on a journey to increase more and more the output of our R&D team.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 24:59 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Enterprise SaaS faces five distinct AI doomsday scenarios
“Yeah, so first of all, I think there's like five Doomeday scenarios I'm familiar with, so that's one of them. But, you know, I'll just take you back a little bit in time, but first of all, it was everything about people will Vibe code their own apps. That was …”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 3:38 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Monday.com leadership team is not selling any company shares
“Not myself or my partner Roy, Or the rest of the leadership team is selling shares. I, in my 10 B five, I have you know, a number I'm not willing to go below in terms of selling shares. And I can say the price now is much, much lower than that number. So I'm n…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 42:55 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Companies will adopt specialized vertical AI tools across key departments
“So basically companies want to adopt AI and they're gonna adopt vertical tools to do that. Like the you know, the SDR example I gave you, maybe another example for support for legal, there's a lot of vertical solutions people are gonna adopt.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 31:01 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: ChatGPT and Claude won't win enterprise AI orchestration
“I don't think that ChatGPT or Gemini on Tropic are going to do it, because going back to my the second theory that we discussed, you know, of course, you know, people are buying a Tropic Claude, they're buying ChatGPT, but it's not a tool where you work with a…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 32:20 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: LPs will eventually stop pouring money into private tech startups
“At some point, investors are going to see the same company 20 times a month, and LPs is, is, is not going to pour a lot of money, and I get it.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 53:09 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Software fundamentals remain strong despite negative market sentiment
“If you look at the earning calls and how business operate, everything is, is kind of normal. Some companies are even exceeded expectations and businesses are working great, but at the same time, The sentiment has shifted drastically, like I've never seen befor…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 2:23 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: AI will handle 70% to 80% of enterprise work
“I think AI can potentially do 70, 80% of the work, and not 10, 20%, like it used to be before AI was brought into our lives.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 14:45 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Monday.com announced an $870M stock buyback over 2-3 years
“Well, we are we announced a buyback program of eight hundred and seventy million. And we said we're gonna spend it over the last, next two, three years. We already done some buyback in Q four.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 41:45 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Software built on LLMs will grow exponentially, not shrink
“I think if anything, we're going to see an excess of software being built on top of the LLMs, not less, exponentially more because the opportunity is so massive and the time is so huge.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 35:39 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Insight
Zinman: Relying on startup acquisitions is a failure of CEO leadership
“If I need to bet the whole company future on an acquisition of a startup, I'm not doing my job as a CEO.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 52:14 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Zinman: Google AI search hit 10% of Monday.com's new ARR acquisition
“It was about 10% of our acquisition in terms of new ARR but again, Google is very transactional, so people usually, when they're searching for something, they're willing to buy at this point because the intent is very high, so we lost some of the more transact…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 40:53 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Monday.com headcount will not grow substantially by 2030
“So today we have about 3000 people and gonna be when? ... My gut feeling is, is probably we're not gonna grow substantially.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 25:25 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Zinman has retained over 80% of his Monday.com equity since IPO
“Since the IPO, I still hold again, I don't know the exact number, but probably 80 something percent of my share. So I sold less than 20%. 14 years in this journey.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 43:17 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Mar 2029
Zinman: Monday.com will remain public with no reason to go private
“No. I don't see a reason. No. Look, I think at the end of the day, you know, you can be private, you can be public. The question is, do you need to raise more money? And we don't. We generate 27% of free cash flow. We don't need to raise more money. We have ev…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 51:00 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Buyers will reject software that doesn't do most work
“Nobody will want to buy The software, they're not doing the majority of the work for them.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 0:26 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 bullish
Prediction Held up
Zinman: Monday.com is pivoting entirely to AI agents
“One, in terms of our horizontal platform, we're going all in agents and humans working together. We're shifting the product a hundred percent, the pricing, the go-to-market, the product. We have two vertical offerings, the CRM and service. For that, we're buil…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:00:07 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Zinman: Historically 90% of enterprise work occurred outside software tools
“90% of the work was done outside of the tool.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 13:49 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zinman: Many tech CEOs fail to grasp magnitude of required changes
“Some CEOs are... I wouldn't say ignoring the problem, but don't understand the magnitude of what needs to change. And I think some are more kind of advanced in how they think about it and understand the magnitude of what needs to be changed.”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 53:46 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zinman: Monday.com leadership fails to adequately tell company strategy
“I think one thing that I think we can do better is to tell a story in a better way. I think Roy, myself, we're not even though we do great marketing for our product, I don't think we tell the story good enough for the company, and definitely that's something t…”
Eran Zinman Mar 2, 2026 ▶ 1:04:37 Monday.com CEO on Is SaaS Dead: Will Everything Be Vibe Coded | Eran Zinman · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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