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Lemkin: Demand environment is worsening for Salesforce, MongoDB, and Workday
“Yamini got on the last call a couple of weeks ago and said, yeah, we saw a little bounce at the end of the year and HubSpot had a great quarter, but it's not any easier. She said, it's not one lick easier right now. So HubSpot, not any easier Mongo worse. Sale…”
Jason Lemkin Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 36:55 Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Lemkin: Public SaaS companies are re-accelerating growth through AI
“I'm glad to see that just literally this week, we were seeing Mongo even Okta, which had been struggling, Box last, the other day, Zoom, which is, you know, which is not exactly a rocket ship anywhere, but seeing growth re-accelerate because of AI, it's like, …”
Jason Lemkin Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 45:52 Anthropic's $10B Round, Klarna's IPO, Inside a16z's 72 Deal Seed Investment Machine ft. Marc Benioff · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Only Two NYC Startups From the Last 30 Years Hit $25B
“The monetary answer is Mongo by far, you know, Mongo's worth twenty five billion dollars. There's only two companies started in the last 30 years in New York that are worth twenty five billion dollars.”
Kevin Ryan Apr 10, 2024 ▶ 5:12 Kevin Ryan: Are the Best CEOs the Best Fundraisers & Why Ownership Should Not Be a Focus in VC|E1138 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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O'Driscoll: MongoDB stock dropped 25% due to 40x EBITDA valuation
“Yamango had a very strong quarter, modest delta in terms of future guidance versus expectations, dropped 25%. Why? Answer, it was trading at 40 times next year's EBITDA.”
Rory O'Driscoll Mar 5, 2026 ▶ 37:47 Anthropic vs The Pentagon: Who Wins? | OpenAI's $110BN Mega Round | Cursor Hits $2BN in ARR · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Ittycheria: MongoDB holds just 0.5% of the $100B database market
“The market is estimated to be about a hundred billion by 2023, and we have a little over half a percent share.”
Dev Ittycheria Aug 10, 2020 ▶ 38:33 20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
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MongoDB Atlas reached a $200M+ run rate following its 2016 launch
“Literally from a standing start, that business was started in 2016 now is north of a two hundred million dollar run rate business, and it's really helped fuel our growth.”
Dev Ittycheria Aug 10, 2020 ▶ 21:42 20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
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John McMahon led sales at five different public software companies
“John McMahon, who's on our board, is probably the only person on the planet who's been the head of sales of five different public software companies.”
Dev Ittycheria Aug 10, 2020 ▶ 36:07 20VC: MongoDB CEO, Dev Ittycheria on Why Sometimes You Have To Be Inefficient To Be Effective, The 2 Different Types of Decisions and How Great Leaders Respond To Each & Why Value To Overhead Ratio Is The Metric To Use When Selecting Investors
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