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Opinion
Gross: Dropbox, GitHub, and Heroku fell into cultural growth plateaus
“And, you know, arguably, you know, even Dropbox and GitHub and in Heroku have fallen into this in different times.”
Adam Gross Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 27:45 Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Insight
Empathetic end-user UX and enterprise software features are not in conflict
“You can really have your cake and eat it, too, in a real kind of emotive, empathetic, individual, high quality product and also build great enterprise features as well. They were viewed as somewhat intentioned with each other and if not in outright conflict. A…”
Adam Gross Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 9:08 Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Gross: Heroku made millions from enterprise offerings unknown to average developers
“All the enterprise products that we built and spent, you know, customers would spend millions of dollars on. Most of, like, your hacker news crowd didn't even know that stuff existed, maybe to a fault on our side.”
Adam Gross Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 22:36 Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Heroku scaled individual PLG usage into $1M+ enterprise accounts
“We were able to kind of connect the dots between a really powerful individual free product, a strong community, all the way up through, you know, large enterprise customers who paid us a million dollars a year.”
Adam Gross Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 8:26 Adam Gross: Why Startups Doing Paid Under $100M ARR are not PLG | E1145 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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