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Opinion
Fougere names Sean Walters as the single best CRO to hire
“Sean Walters. He has been able to take over Datadog. I've, I hired him as a rep at BMC right after we were acquired at Blade Logic by BMC. And he went through some super hard times and came out as the top rep. And got promoted. He was a leader at BMC and came …”
Dan Fougere Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 1:21:10 Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Opinion
Fougere: Qualtrics caught Medallia because its product innovated faster
“Qualtrics caught up to us because they were out developing us. They're out, their product was innovating much faster than ours.”
Dan Fougere Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 1:10:46 Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Fougere: Paid household bills with a HELOC four years into Medallia
“Four years in, I had been eating into my savings and I ended up paying a bill with a HELOC check.”
Dan Fougere Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 45:34 Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fougere: New hires cold-called and booked meetings during onboarding training
“When we were doing new hire training, my last two companies, when I was running all that in the new hire training, we would get outbound meetings. Like your first days, we are cold calling.”
Dan Fougere Nov 22, 2024 ▶ 34:19 Dan Fougere, CRO @Datadog: Why Discounting is Dangerous and Contract Sizes are Misleading | E1229 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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