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Crespo: Winning US enterprise software buyers is easier than in Europe
“A lot of people say it's harder than you think, where I think it's actually easier than you think. Because I said it's hard, yes, but it's easier than in Europe. People buy faster.”
Crespo: Pigment aims for $1T, but current platform won't get them there
“Nothing is preventing me from thinking how can I create a trillion dollar company out there? So what I am constantly thinking about, and this is where you need to think slow, is what is the second, the third, the fourth act of pigment? Because the platform we …”
Crespo: Pigment refuses to hire friends to ensure novel perspectives
“I'm not hiring my friends at Pigment. I'm hiring people that I don't know about that can bring things that I don't know.”
Crespo: Co-CEO Model Lets Companies Spend Double Time With Customers
“Well, when you are co-CEO, you actually have that superpower of being able to spend twice as much time with your customer, listening to them.”
Crespo Advises Founders to Spend Time Working in Venture Capital
“It's something I would advise to any founder, pretty much being a VC, because it created so many things.”
Crespo: Interview 20 top executives to learn to hire for unknown roles
“For me, the biggest advice is go human to human. Ask, when you're hiring your CRO, ask the 20 best CROs out there. Best CROs, again, in your category. What have they done so great? What makes them so different? That's really my number one advice to anyone.”
Crespo: Startups get individual board members, not VC fund brands
“And at your board, you get one person. You don't get a brand.”
Crespo: Startup board members hold more power than CEOs realize
“The power of the board is bigger than you think. If the board wants to fire you one day, probably they can.”
Crespo: U.S. Tech Dominance Driven by Superior Storytelling and Marketing
“The reality is that you can see the power of many U.S. Companies out there is a power of marketing, how much they have understood the importance of marketing and storytelling, and that's what I'm learned, like, that's what I've learned at INDEX, the importance…”