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Silagadze: Only 10 to 15 EdTech startups have reached $10M+ revenue
“Out of the, you know, thousands and thousands of companies that have been funded over the last decade or so, only a handful, I would say probably 10 or 15, have really broken out past the, let's say, tens of millions in revenue milestone and, you know, are on …”
Silagadze: Technical founders' early sales leadership hires fail almost 100% of the time
“There's one mistake that almost every young founder makes, engineering founders in particular, honestly, almost a hundred percent of the time is at some point they decide, you know what, we need to start figuring out sales. And then they correctly assess, well…”
Silagadze: I wouldn't have invested in early-stage Top Hat today
“If I was evaluating Top Hat in the early days, I don't know if I would have invested knowing everything that I know now, just knowing how difficult the market is.”
Silagadze: Top sales individual contributors usually make poor managers
“When you've got somebody who's a top rep and, you know, is clamoring for a promotion to management, more often than not, that's a bad idea. You need to figure out how to level them up and give them the opportunity for growth within the, you know, as an individ…”
Silagadze: Traditional Chalkboard and Paper Lectures Fail to Effectively Teach Skills
“Chalkboards and paper books and all this stuff that hadn't changed for hundreds of years. And not only that it hadn't changed, but this is, it doesn't work. It's a really terrible way to teach people skills, actually.”
Silagadze: Canada Lacks Executives Who Have Scaled Companies Beyond $100M
“And biggest challenge I would say is lack of executive talent. There are very, very few people in Canada that have scaled businesses past a hundred million dollars. And as a result of that, it's challenging to build a business that scales to that degree becaus…”
Silagadze: Top Hat abandoned top-down university enterprise sales as a dead end
“So that's what we started, actually. I mean, we started trying to do enterprise sales in universities, and very quickly, within a matter of months, realized that it was a dead end. I mean, the business just could not exist.”
Silagadze: Premature promotions usually lead to departures since demotions are impossible
“We've certainly made The mistake of promoting people too early, and unfortunately, that usually doesn't end well, because what tends to happen is you can't demote them, because that's, you know, politically or whatever, from an optics perspective, you can't re…”