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General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:17 Hemant Taneja I lost a series A of Stripe, of Samsara, of Snap, and the first one I won was a series A of Gusto.
- ▶ 52:01 Hemant Taneja We used to think about, hey, you go, like when we did Samsara and, uh, you know, Gusto and some of these companies are like, yeah, triple, triple, there you go, triple, triple, triple, double, double, right?
- ▶ 1:31:15 Hemant Taneja I lost a Series A of Samsara.
George Bonaci, VP of Growth @Ramp: How Ramp Became the Fastest Growing SaaS Company Ever |E1264 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:57 Harry Stebbings And do you worry that then you'll speak to your friend, George, who will tell you what worked at Samsara, but ramps are totally different business.
- ▶ 33:50 George Bonaci I, I think Samsara actually had like a great model for this. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:17 George Bonaci Like, actually, this is something I learned from, from Samsara as well.
- ▶ 50:14 George Bonaci I think like direct mailing gifting was one that we could have actually even attempted even earlier, uh, when we were at Samsara, uh, in my opinion, I think that there's probably unfair advantages to be gained in like display advertising.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:13 Jason Lemkin Again, if Canva's at 2.4 billion growing 40%, if Samsara's growing over 40% at 1.3 billion in revenue, okay, um,
- ▶ 54:04 Jason Lemkin Samsara, 39% at 1.1 billion. 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 58:16 Jason Lemkin Um, it's possible they might get a Samsara-like multiple, right?
Sanjit Biswas: Samsara's $18BN Market Cap & $1BN in ARR in 8 Years | E1092 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:03 Sanjit Biswas Well, I think some of it has to do with with Samsara.
- ▶ 5:20 Sanjit Biswas and I loved doing many of the early sales at Meraki and Samsara
- ▶ 6:43 Sanjit Biswas Well, at this point, Samsara, which is the current company, is at quite a bit of scale, so we're a public company now, um, you know, the consensus numbers have us getting to over a billion in ARR, so we've really got something big going on. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:47 Harry Stebbings When you look back at Meraki and like translating that to Samsara today, first, what didn't work with Meraki that you have very deliberately left behind and not taken with you to Samsara? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:10 Sanjit Biswas There have been a couple of times where even in the course of this company, you tend to get really enamored with a cool idea or cool technology. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:31 Harry Stebbings I'm the biggest fan afar from of Samsara's business, and you have amazing breadth to your product line. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:08 Sanjit Biswas And when we talk about the, uh, talent brand and why people come to Samsara, it's around real world impact.
- ▶ 28:49 Harry Stebbings And how have you seen sales cycles vary over the life of Samsara? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:39 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, when we think about sales cycles, compressing them, reducing them, making them more efficient, one thing that's astonishing with Samsara is how much more efficient you are as a business, and how that's kind of changed over time.
- ▶ 32:44 Sanjit Biswas You know, as I mentioned earlier, we're a direct sales company primarily. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:04 Sanjit Biswas In fact, we have, I forget how many thousands, like hundreds of thousands of people apply for jobs at Samsara.
- ▶ 42:52 Sanjit Biswas So for us, um, you know, we were talking earlier about what are some of the differences between Meraki and Samsara. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:07 Sanjit Biswas Um, and this company grew very, very fast. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:36 Sanjit Biswas So I'm sorry. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:07 Sanjit Biswas Just to kind of elaborate on that, as you do a second company, you actually have a lot more flexibility in terms of we didn't raise seed funding for Samsara because John, who's my co-founder and I both did very well from 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:02 Sanjit Biswas Um, uh, you know, I, I think for, for me, you know, as we kind of talk about rehiring myself, we're entering the next phase of growth for Samsara, which is really scale growth, right?
- ▶ 1:05:29 Harry Stebbings Where is Samsara and where are you in 10 years? 4 times in the scene
Is the VC Model Broken? Jason Lemkin, Mike Maples, Eric Paley & Harry Stebbings Debate | E1062 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:14:59 Jason Lemkin Samsara just crossed a billion. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst
- ▶ 11:32 Quentin Clark I was looking for a firm on the rise, and if you look at General Catalyst's book, Livongo, Stripe, BeCommerce, Simcera,
20VC: Elad Gil on Startup Offense and Defence in a Recession, How The Venture Landscape Has Shifted & All Things Valuations, Secondaries and Layoffs
20VC: General Catalyst's Hemant Taneja on Why We Are In A Golden Age For VC, Why Pro-Rata Is A Lazy Posture and Why He Does Not Focus On Price
- ▶ 9:27 Hemant Taneja So we're invested in a company called Samsara, for example, which is an industrial IoT company.