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Lemkin: ZoomInfo's market growth was stolen by Clay and competing tools
“Zoom Info's growth was stolen from it from Clay and friends, and it's a brutal case study.”
Lemkin: I would buy ZoomInfo stock because of founder Henry Schuck's commitment
“Generally speaking, when you have great founders that are committed, I'm a buyer, so I would buy. There's negative things, but like Henry's a great founder who's done this from scratch, basically bootstrapped all the way here, totally committed to the space, w…”
Schuck: ZoomInfo runs software's most efficient go-to-market motion
“And we run a really efficient go to market motion, the most efficient go to market motion and software, which means there's not a lot of slack in the rope.”
Schuck: ZoomInfo will grow 30% annually with Schuck as CEO by 2027
“Henry is assuming I can continue to do my job well. Henry is still CEO of ZoomInfo. And he's really happy, and the company is growing 30% a year, year over year.”
Henry Schuck: Executive job safety comes strictly from performance, not trust
“I trust all of my executive team. I trust that they make the right decisions. I trust that they're focused on the business, but if nothing goes right for four quarters in a row or all of the things that we were trying to achieve are not achieved, it doesn't ma…”
Henry Schuck: Companies aren't real businesses until they run profitably
“And so I think what was instilled in me was good businesses run profitably. And you're just not really a real business until you can figure out a way to be profitable and run a business. You can't just always be fundraising the next dollars to fund your operat…”
Frank Slootman's culture book lacks actionable execution advice, says Henry Schuck
“I think the hard part about culture is like you read Frank Slootman's book and you walk out and you go like, okay, take the slack out of the rope. It's like, okay, I don't know really like what, like, what is the, bring your spear, kill someone. And that is li…”
Mukherjee: ZoomInfo has probably the highest quality B2B contact data
“Like Henry and ZoomInfo, for example, a phenomenal business. They have probably the highest quality contact data.”
Lemkin: Zoom and ZoomInfo are still cutting tech spend to the bone
“Tech companies are just continuing app layoffs. We thought it would be over. They're still cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting, cutting to the bone, right? We see it at Zoom Info. We see it at Zoom. We see it at so many others. They're still cutting, a…”
Henry Schuck: Early $40M VC check would have led to bad decisions
“If you round back to 2014, where we took our first outside funding or even earlier than that. And you said like, Hey, here's forty million dollars. Just like go, you know, go spend the forty million dollars. I would make a tremendous amount of bad decisions al…”
Henry Schuck: ZoomInfo was third highest-valued software company on relative basis
“Going into that earnings report on a relative basis, we were the third most valuable software company in the world. From evaluation purposes, snowflake, cloud flare, us”
Schuck: Employees are never surprised by their own underperformance
“No one's ever, like, surprised that they're underperforming.”
Schuck: ZoomInfo sales reps currently have seven recruiting offers on LinkedIn
“Any of my salespeople have seven recruiting offers in their LinkedIn in mail today.”