Monte Carlo

5 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2022 by Jordan Van Horn · said 18 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Aug 17, 2022 neutral
Disclosure
Monte Carlo operates 100% through enterprise sales without PLG
“The lens that I'm looking through today at Monte Carlo is a very specific enterprise tops down sales motion that's focusing on one specific team. And that's why we don't have you know, a product led growth model. It's like all at 100% sales side growth.”
Jordan Van Horn Aug 17, 2022 ▶ 8:50 Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 17, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Monte Carlo reached $1B valuation and 80 GTM employees without HR
“One funny thing about Monte Carlo is we managed to get to like a billion plus valuation. We managed to get to an 80 person go to market team, and we still hadn't hired a recruiter or a head of HR.”
Jordan Van Horn Aug 17, 2022 ▶ 4:34 Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 17, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Van Horn starts sales interviews by listing Monte Carlo's operational flaws
“I start every first interview, I don't know if it's a good iron practice or a bad one, but I say like, oh man, we have problems. Like, let me walk you through all of the things that are wrong at Monte Carlo and all the things that we need to fix in the next si…”
Jordan Van Horn Aug 17, 2022 ▶ 28:11 Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 17, 2022 positive
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Monte Carlo reached eight figures in revenue within 18 months
“Growing from like no revenue to like eight figures in revenue in 18 months is really freaking hard. Growing a team from zero to 80 is really hard.”
Jordan Van Horn Aug 17, 2022 ▶ 1:01:08 Jordan Van Horn: 3 Reasons Salespeople Fail; How to Make a Sales Playbook | 20VC #918 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 14, 2022 positive
Opinion
Dorfman: Monte Carlo defined its category via heavy content and event marketing
“Monte Carlo has invested in fields and content in a way that I have found very impressive. I think they've created a category through Just sheer market education in a way. They somehow seem to be at every conference producing new content every week and have cr…”
Eleanor Dorfman Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 47:53 Eleanor Dorfman: How We Scaled Retool to $50M ARR; Red Flags for Sales Hires | 20VC #925 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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