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Lemkin: Twilio Has Failed to Profit From Segment After Multi-Billion Acquisition
“It hasn't been able to make segment, make any money. Which it's paid billions of dollars for.”
Jason Lemkin Jun 3, 2024 ▶ 37:59 Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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No SaaS firm Cabane advised reached $50M ARR on a single channel
“And I have never seen a companies I've worked with, neither at Segment or at Drift, Gorgias, or Ram, and not in one of the companies I engage with, where we were able to get to fifty million on one channel. Not one.”
Guillaume Cabane Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 46:09 Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Verna: Segment closed enterprise deals using billboards outside target offices
“The, when they wanted to close an enterprise contract, they would buy a billboard right in front of that office and they would put their ad on that billboard addressing that company specifically. And it would be like the cheapest way to close a six, seven digi…”
Elena Verna Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 39:57 Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Zapier refused Segment's enterprise feature requests to maintain strict SMB focus
“I have one example. Zapier did that for very, very long. I talked to the Zapier founders. I talked to Mike when I was at Segment, and I wanted enterprise features, and he said, gee, we love you, but I'm sorry. We're not going to build those features. I'm like,…”
Guillaume Cabane Nov 29, 2023 ▶ 10:42 Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson spent 18 months convincing Reinhardt to sell
“No, you know, it took Jeff about 18 months to convince me that it was the right thing to do.”
Peter Reinhardt Apr 22, 2021 ▶ 19:26 20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
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Segment's Hacker News launch drove thousands of GitHub stars and signups
“We just went straight to the top of Hacker News, got hundreds of upvotes, thousands of stars on GitHub, thousands of email signups.”
Peter Reinhardt Apr 22, 2021 ▶ 4:53 20VC: Segment Founder Peter Reinhardt on His Learning Process, How Great Leaders Listen and Encourage Debate within Their Organisation & How To Use Data Intelligently To Improve Decision-Making
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