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20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
- ▶ 37:01 Ishan Mukherjee Like, we, we have an iOS app, we have a Slack.
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 42:13 Harry Stebbings I'm thinking European incumbents who still don't know what Slack and Notion is, let alone are adopting AI first principles.
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 18:36 Matt Biilmann Like we all use Slack and Messenger and WhatsApp and all of these chat tools for good reasons.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:14 Harry Stebbings Enterprises, especially in Europe, do not know what Slack is, let alone what Notion is.
Julian Teixeira, CRO @ 1Password: How to Hire and Train Your First Sales Hires · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 41:06 Julian Teixeira Feed me that through Slack.
Fabien Pinckaers, CEO @Odoo: The Billionaire Founder Who Doesn’t Care About Money | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 19:04 Fabien Pinckaers They have a lot of spreadsheets, but they use Slack for discussion, MailChimp to send email, WordPress for a website.
- ▶ 40:50 Fabien Pinckaers And then you have the small player, like Slack, MailChimp, uh, to send email Trello, Asana, and so on.
Max Levchin, Founder & CEO @ Affirm:The Biggest Surprise Scaling to $18.7BN Market Cap · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:20 Max Levchin Blip for whatever definition of in our systems or in our processes or in our models, anything, a separate conversation is carved off on Slack.
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:02 Eran Zinman Uh, it was the days before Slack.
- ▶ 53:32 Harry Stebbings And so you Slack and WhatsApp? 2 times in the scene
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Founder: Why Salesforce Isn't Hiring Software Engineers | E1236 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:48 Marc Benioff Our commerce cloud, our analytics, Tableau, Slack,
Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 11:29 Dan Fougere We're, we're slacking like on a Sunday night that the engineer says, Hey guys, his dashboard has just went down with the other products and he's got data dog working.
- ▶ 59:07 Dan Fougere So you can call me, slack me, text me, call me, basically, 24 seven.
Sam Altman: What Startups Will be Steamrolled by OpenAI & Where is Opportunity | E1223 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:52 Sam Altman Like, we have, I was just, like, right before this, I was sending someone a Slack message about
Daniel Khachab: "We Are in the Middle of a Cold War for AI Talent" | E1220 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 10:49 Harry Stebbings Um, in Europe, 62% of large enterprises still don't know what Slack is.
AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01 AJ Tennant Uh, you know, I, I think a lot of people would say it's innate, you know, you, you're born with it, it's that your personality, someone that's outgoing, but my, my philosophy is that pretty much humans can learn anything if they're taught…
- ▶ 6:35 AJ Tennant On, on kind of like how you're getting those initial customers to product market fit, you know, at, at Slack and at Glean, you know, at Slack, Stuart was very involved on figuring out how to get those first customers and making them… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:28 Harry Stebbings Slack was an incredible journey for you. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:35 AJ Tennant I think the, the, the second biggest lesson from just the, the experience at Slack, um, you know, and for context, I was there, kind of employee 50. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:11 AJ Tennant Now, the key thing that we've learned, and I, you know, learned this at Slack as well, but at Glean,
- ▶ 30:28 AJ Tennant So I think one thing that I learned at Slack is like all Slack did was look at 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 36:37 AJ Tennant I didn't realize that that was a hiring methodology until Bob Fratty taught me that at Slack, which is kind of this who hiring, the who hiring method is what we call a chronological interview.
- ▶ 43:11 AJ Tennant Why I love sales and why I love enterprise SaaS sales, like I, I went from ad sales at Facebook to, uh, B to B at Slack and I'm never going, never going back is like the level of learning and depth you get to do, like figuring out how to… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:27 AJ Tennant Uh, we don't, it's interesting, we, we're debating this, so at, at Slack, anyone that was coming in as an AE had to do a writing exercise, and it wasn't a take home, like I think you just had to write something.
- ▶ 54:39 AJ Tennant You know, I, I, at Slack, we, we got this sort of like, when, when the acquisition happened, and even maybe before the acquisition, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:56 AJ Tennant We lost the distribution war at Slack.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:02 Mamoon Hamid Slack created a market.
- ▶ 28:50 Mamoon Hamid The next Slack, you know, and fortunately for us, Yammer got acquired, and a year later we had a chance to invest in Slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:24 Mamoon Hamid Probably Slack, I would say, you know, even, um, at the 250 post, uh, that's, you know, with all the dilution over time and,
- ▶ 38:33 Mamoon Hamid Slack created a market.
- ▶ 40:17 Mamoon Hamid And I would put Stuart Butterfield from Slack in that bucket.
- ▶ 44:53 Harry Stebbings Was Slack an obvious home run when you did it? 6 times in the scene
David Frankel, MP @Founder Collective: Investing Lessons from Seeding Coupang, Pillpack & Suno|E1214 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:23 Harry Stebbings They struggle to onboard Slack.
Maria Angelidou:Product Lessons Leading Facebook App Monetisation Team to Billions in Revenue |E1210 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:26 Maria Angelidou Um, but what we do, because I, I think transparency, uh, is very, very important, we record every review, and we have a Slack chat, we use Slack, and we post every, about every review, the materials, um, the recording, uh, the action… 2 times in the scene
Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:51 Mike Hudack I have kind of an obsessive personality, you know, Sling's growing now, and, uh, we have a channel, we have a Slack channel called Pulse, where we see every sign up, and we see every transaction, and then, you know, we have a dashboard… 2 times in the scene
Kaz Nejatian: How Shopify Built a $90BN Business to Last 100 Years | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:38 Kaz Nejatian I actually once looked at my Slack history, uh, with, uh, with Toby.
Dax Dasilva: $900M ARR at $2.6BN Market Cap?! Lightspeed, The Most Undervalued Public Company |E1188 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:14 Dax Dasilva What's great about being the executive chair is, it's great for a founder, because you can be on the email, you can be on the slack, you can be in the, get the pulse of the business, but you really aren't in the day-to-day operations.
Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:03 Cameron Adams So six years later, launch it, it becomes something like Slack or Microsoft teams.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:50 Mark Roberge And then I've asked a lot of people from Chris Degnan, one of our LPs or the founding CEO of Snowflake to like, you know, um, Kevin Egan, who I did a podcast who took like Salesforce and Dropbox and Atlassian and Slack upstream.
Pat Grady: Sequoia Partner on Investing Lessons from Doug Leone, Roelof Botha and Alfred Lin | E1174 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Ashley Kelly: The Playbook to Start and Scale Your SDR Team | E1162 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:40 Ashley Kelly Like, we, we just move so quickly, and by the time, you know, I wake up and I'm, you know, talking to my team in EMEA, it's like they only have a couple more hours left in the day that they're working, and, like, we miss out on a day all…
Aravind Srinivas:Will Foundation Models Commoditise & Diminishing Returns in Model Performance|E1161 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:11 Aravind Srinivas Like, not just can build pipes to every single, like, enterprise tool like Slack or Notion.
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:08 Jason Lemkin Maybe we don't need as much slack or as much mule soft or other pieces.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:44 Jason Lemkin And how important 20, 21 was for exits and slack selling, slack selling for twenty seven billion at a billion in revenue. 3 times in the scene
Nikesh Arora: Lessons from $102BN Market Cap & How to Create & Sustain Competitive Advantage | E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 13:57 Nikesh Arora They're all started with different intents or slack in this early generation of being a gaming company.
- ▶ 32:07 Harry Stebbings Like I think 48% don't know what slack is.
Arthur Mensch: Open vs Closed - Who Wins and Mistral's Position | E1146 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:13 Harry Stebbings Most do not even have Slack.
Girish Mathrubootham (HINDI): Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:30 Girish Mathrubootham तो अब हमारे नए product के launch के लिए guardrails हैं और मुझे ये बहुत अच्छा लगा लेकिन हमारे product काम नहीं किये हाँ पहली बात जो मैं आपको बताना चाहूंगा वो ये है कि दो उधारण मैं आपको दे सकता हूँ एक है एक product जिससे fresh connect कहा… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:49 Girish Mathrubootham कि Slack और Teams के साथ collaboration करना सही रहेगा.
Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 17:33 Girish Mathrubootham So I think today, if you look at many, many successful PLG companies, whether it's, uh, uh, Atlassian or Slack or, uh, Zoom or, uh, HubSpot,
- ▶ 33:11 Girish Mathrubootham Uh, so where this was the early days of Slack when we saw Slack, uh, uh, really growing, uh, rapidly. 8 times in the scene
Jean-Michel Lemieux: Three Product Decisions Every Team Needs to Make | E1129 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:28 Jean-Michel Lemieux A Slack message every day going, hey, here's two decisions that I saw. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:50 Harry Stebbings Do they sit down with their team and say, hey, I would like a Slack every morning with
Sami Inkinen: "Why the Two Weeks Following Our IPO Were the Worst of my Life" | E1120 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 49:11 Sami Inkinen Oh, we were building a gaming company and then it turned into a slack.
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:01 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) You could also build a how to convince your boss kit, which basically gives that Coca-Cola developer a message that they can send in Slack or in Teams to their manager to help them convince on why they should do the product.
- ▶ 57:08 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) A lot of times you will see that Slack or even in Reforge, there's sort of frameworks, the frameworks about like a growth loop, what a growth loop does, why you should care about it. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:32 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Like we add them to our Slack to do an exercise.
Erik Allebest: Scaling to $100M Revenue, 150M Members and 700 People, All with No Vc Funding | E1113 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 23:35 Erik Allebest I am micro dosing on Slack. 3 times in the scene
Sean Murray: Why Discovery Today is F***** & How to Scale Into Enterprise Effectively | E1107 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 36:09 Sean Murray So you can say you've got Adobe as a customer or the snowflakes or those sexy logos, Slack, Salesforce, whatever. 3 times in the scene
Zaria Parvez: How Duolingo Scaled to 8M TikTok Followers & How to Create Viral Content | E1105 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:18 Zaria Parvez So the team has now definitely expanded and it's honestly like a slack channel of dumping.
- ▶ 17:08 Harry Stebbings You mentioned, like, elements that are trending that you're kind of taking account of and putting in, you know, Slack channels.
Shyam Sankar: The Broken Incentive Structure of How Governments Buy Defence | E1104 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:02:55 Harry Stebbings I think we all overly get excited, and actually, you know, 50% of European corporates don't know what slack is.
Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:19 Brian Halligan There's another thing I would say about prioritizing, Harry, is I think too many people run their life through Slack and through their email, and that's everyone else's priority list imposed on you, and so you're really just spending your… 2 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: Predictions for 2024 - What Does a Trump Administration do for Startups? | E1099 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:50 Jason Lemkin Mamoon goes in and it's like, it's going to be slack. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:14:36 Jason Lemkin Slack was worth twenty seven billion when Salesforce bought it and probably worth two billion today.
Roundtable #7: Spotify, Adobe and Linkedin on How AI Changes The Future of Product & Design | E1097 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:01 Harry Stebbings Like, you know, I think as a stat, 32% of European corporates do not know what Slack is.
Davis Smith: From Selling $6M of Pool Tables to Scaling Cotopaxi to $150M in Revenues | E1095 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 57:08 Davis Smith It sends out polls through Slack, which we use Slack, and I measure, uh,
Geoff Charles: How To Hire Product Teams & Increase Product Velocity | E1091 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:40 Geoff Charles I mean, I, we have, I'll tell you, we have Slack channels with every single negative feedback we get from customers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:53 Geoff Charles So I, I think if we weren't in the B to B like fintech space, I would say incumbents, and you've seen that with like Microsoft teams and slack, right?
Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:06 Guillaume Cabane I want to say these days, uh, Mercy Grace, who used to run marketing at Slack, uh, has launched a product called Panobi, uh, where I'm not involved for once.
Jeff Seibert: Why OpenAI Will Become an Infrastructure Play | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:03 Jeff Seibert Slack was a game.
Matteo Franceschetti: The Ultimate Hiring Playbook: Five Questions to Ask Every New Hire | E1084 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:41:01 Matteo Franceschetti And I can talk to them because I wouldn't call them at 10 PM, but I would slack them. 3 times in the scene
Des Traynor: How to Survive and Thrive in a World of OpenAI | E1082 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:08 Des Traynor Understanding that we have to play nice alongside like workforce management solutions, uh, CRMs, whether it's like Salesforce or HubSpot or whatever, QA tools, Slack, you name it.
- ▶ 1:22:51 Des Traynor I, you know, like basically, if I was the CEO of Google, what I'd do is I'd say, I need you guys to build me a Slack, a fully functional Slack equivalent, 3 times in the scene
Ryan Petersen: Why Velocity not Speed is Most Important in Company Building | E1081 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:25 Ryan Petersen We have an open channel in our Slack instance where anybody can ask the leadership team a question.
- ▶ 30:38 Ryan Petersen In our Slack instance where anybody can ask the leadership team a question.
Roundtable #5 with Jack Altman, Auren Hoffman, Jason Lemkin, Harry Stebbings | E1077 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:26 Auren Hoffman You didn't even like you slack 10 years ago.
- ▶ 23:53 Jason Lemkin And you know, it's funny when I started investing 10 years ago, and I remember when Slack and Zoom took off, I was like, I didn't see them.
Ed Sim: Why Seed Has Never Been More Competitive & Why Pricing Has Never Been Higher | E1076 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Matthieu Rouif: The Story of PhotoRoom, Is This YC’s Most Capital Efficient Company? | E1074 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 50:30 Matthieu Rouif I think if you do, especially we have a very transparent culture, we have a no DMs culture, so like, you don't write DMs, like every, it's an open space, or Slack is an open space, and we just do thread, like people, uh, uh, whispering,…
Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 16:52 Scott Farquhar We had a competitor to Slack that we built. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:43 Scott Farquhar Look, another decision we made was to shut down Stride, which was our competitor to Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:32 Scott Farquhar We sold it to Slack, but in the end it was easy because I could look at the staff and say,
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:11:25 Guillermo Rauch Very few people know this, but when Slack was coming up, a few competitors to Slack were actually giving you IRC as a service with some UI. 4 times in the scene
Matt Rosenberg: Why You Should Not Hire Sales Leaders From Big Companies | E1068 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 21:40 Harry Stebbings Do you have a Slack channel with lessons from calls?
Christian Lanng: "How Being a Founder Almost Killed Me" | E1065 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:03:12 Harry Stebbings Most corporates in London and Europe don't really know what slack is.
- ▶ 1:14:03 Christian Lanng I mean, it's so crazy, like, nobody is on Slack that I know in this environment.
Marc Benioff: The Future of San Francisco and What He Would Do if in Charge | E1064 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:27 Marc Benioff We just subleased a quarter million square feet of space in one of our buildings, the former Slack headquarters.
Christian Kleinerman: Do OpenAI and Anthropic Have a Sustaining Moat? Who Wins the AI Wars? | E1063 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 9:32 Harry Stebbings Many, if you can believe it, Christian enterprises in Europe still have no idea what Slack is.
Miles Grimshaw: The 5 Pillars of Venture Capital & Why Co-Pilot is an Incumbent Strategy | E1061 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 51:18 Miles Grimshaw Um, if you go ask for their spend on Figma, many of them probably spend more than slack, uh, which is, was wild to think about. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:35 Harry Stebbings When we think about adoption, I think the biggest thing is that you mentioned Slack earlier and spend on Slack in particular. 2 times in the scene
Nikhil Basu Trivedi: Why 99% of AI Investments Will Go Bust | E1057 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 18:03 Harry Stebbings Actually, the Stuart Butterfield and Slack example always rings true for me.
Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:25 Howie Liu When I think about, you know, a Slack or a Dropbox, I think they actually fall into a very well-defined category in my mind. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:09 Harry Stebbings Um, uh, but like, we don't have slack in a lot of large enterprises. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:11 Howie Liu So the CIO can say, look, I'm going to go with teams and not use Slack.
Jason Lemkin: Every VC has a FRAUD in their portfolio; The IPO market is about to EXPLODE | E1046 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:12 Harry Stebbings You can invest in Slack when it's a gaming company that pivots into Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:58 Jason Lemkin When, you know, Slack before it was, Slack was a gaming company, right? 3 times in the scene
Ilir Sela: How I Founded Slice Pizza & Became One of Macedonia’s Largest Employers | E1044 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:53 Harry Stebbings Is it Slack with Airtable and Asana? 3 times in the scene
Lori Jiménez: How to Increase Sales; Hiring Tips from Google; Best Way to Grow Sales Teams | E1043 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:02 Lori Jiménez Like we just, and we, and we publicly in a, in a Slack channel, mark them when they're perfect.