Henry Schuck

11 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2023 by Henry Schuck · said 20 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jan 9, 2023 negative
Opinion
Henry Schuck: Modern culture expects high rewards without commensurate effort
“I think it's a weird new expectation of large rewards without the commensurate effort for those rewards.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 25:38 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Assertion Supported
Schuck: DiscoverOrg hit $30M profitable ARR before taking PE investment
“We grew the business without any outside investor through 2014, where we were about thirty million dollars of ARR profitable and brought in TA Associates as a private equity investor in 2014.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 2:58 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schuck: Early SaaS employer grew to $5M revenue with $4.7M EBITDA
“We grew it from 300,000 in revenue to just under five million in revenue. The business was five million in revenue and doing like 4.7 million in EBITDA.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 1:30 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schuck: DiscoverOrg was founded with $50,000 charged to credit cards
“I put 25,000 dollars on my credit card. He put 25,000 dollars in his credit card.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 2:37 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023 negative
What-if
Henry Schuck: Early $40M VC check would have led to bad decisions
“If you round back to 2014, where we took our first outside funding or even earlier than that. And you said like, Hey, here's forty million dollars. Just like go, you know, go spend the forty million dollars. I would make a tremendous amount of bad decisions al…”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 8:44 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Dec 2027
Schuck: ZoomInfo will grow 30% annually with Schuck as CEO by 2027
“Henry is assuming I can continue to do my job well. Henry is still CEO of ZoomInfo. And he's really happy, and the company is growing 30% a year, year over year.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 53:13 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Henry Schuck: I can afford a Gulfstream but refuse to buy one
“I can afford a Gulfstream or a plane and I don't have one and I don't fly private very often because I think at some point when you get to that other point, you're making more values decisions than you're making like spending decisions.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 46:13 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023
Insight
Henry Schuck: Executive job safety comes strictly from performance, not trust
“I trust all of my executive team. I trust that they make the right decisions. I trust that they're focused on the business, but if nothing goes right for four quarters in a row or all of the things that we were trying to achieve are not achieved, it doesn't ma…”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 19:18 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023 positive
Insight
Henry Schuck: Companies aren't real businesses until they run profitably
“And so I think what was instilled in me was good businesses run profitably. And you're just not really a real business until you can figure out a way to be profitable and run a business. You can't just always be fundraising the next dollars to fund your operat…”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 7:19 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 9, 2023
Insight
Schuck: Employees are never surprised by their own underperformance
“No one's ever, like, surprised that they're underperforming.”
Henry Schuck Jan 9, 2023 ▶ 21:33 ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck: Sales Cycle Elongation; Gratitude Journaling; Sales Layoffs | E964 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 3, 2024 bullish
Opinion
Lemkin: I would buy ZoomInfo stock because of founder Henry Schuck's commitment
“Generally speaking, when you have great founders that are committed, I'm a buyer, so I would buy. There's negative things, but like Henry's a great founder who's done this from scratch, basically bootstrapped all the way here, totally committed to the space, w…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 55:28 Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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