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a16z Podcast | Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
- ▶ 24:51 Jyoti Bansal A hundred customers, and you have, like, 50 references, and you have, like, you are in the magic quadrant for something, and you, everything is well refined, and how you sell is different than when you're a brand new product with zero…
a16z Podcast | Companies, Networks, Crowds
- ▶ 34:09 Frank Chen So in the old days, basically, you wrote software, it was all proprietary, you won Gartner Magic Quadrant, then you sent your Rolex-wearing direct salesperson to go sell it to someone.
a16z Podcast | What Startups Should Know about Analyst Relations
- ▶ 7:21 Michael King So if your developer comes in and says, we want to use X, and they look at the magic quadrant, or they have a conversation with the analyst, and they go, who?
- ▶ 22:08 Michael King The other thing is just take a look at the magic quadrant for your specific space or the Forrester way for your specific space.
a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
- ▶ 17:26 Sonal Chokshi An interesting little anecdote is that during, because of that, VMware was actually in Gartner's quad famous quadrant noted as a visionary in networking. 2 times in the scene
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 16:20 unnamed speaker And so, basically the old way, enterprise salesperson winning Gartner Magic Quadrant, right, is no longer the way it's done.