SuccessFactors, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where SuccessFactors comes up
a16z Podcast | Independents on the Board
- ▶ 1:38 unnamed speaker Lars, maybe just give us a little bit of sense from evolution, you know, beginning of time evolution on the success factor side. 4 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Software Programs the World
- ▶ 24:07 Ben Horowitz Um, so that's like Workday, Salesforce, um, success factors, you know, the, the, the kind of big categories.
a16z Podcast | The Why, How, and When of Sales
- ▶ 16:01 Lars Dalgaard Um, I've seen engineers that thought that reps made too much money, and we had to have a statement set of success factors, which was, you think you can do it? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:52 Lars Dalgaard This is maybe one of the biggest breakthroughs in SuccessFactors history was that we made reps feel like they were as important as engineers.
a16z Podcast | Scaling Companies and Culture
- ▶ 0:11 Sonal Chokshi We cover Lars' own story founding SuccessFactors, one of the earlier software as a service companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:35 Ben Horowitz Hello, this is Ben Horowitz, and I'm here with Lars Dahlgaard, and we are going to talk today about how he built success factors and achieved the first great outcome in software as a service, and then what he took away from that. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:51 Ben Horowitz Did that mean that SuccessFactors was straightforward to build because it had to be done, or was it challenging, or how did, how did you go from
- ▶ 5:32 Ben Horowitz So really interestingly, the company that you built, SuccessFactors, helped other companies 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:13 Ben Horowitz Um, so success factors was the biggest thing and most important thing that you ever ran. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Truth and Humanity in Leadership
- ▶ 0:48 Bethany Coates He founded and ran the company SuccessFactors, which he ultimately sold to SAP, and he's now an investor here at Andreessen Horowitz.
- ▶ 6:28 Bethany Coates So I want to switch gears again and talk about moments in your life where everyone was saying no to you when you were trying to get a job, and then when you were trying to get funding for success factors, and how many VCs turned you down?
a16z Podcast | On Recent IPOs and Comparing Private vs. Public Valuations
- ▶ 35:17 unnamed speaker The markets understand the SaaS business model a lot more these days than they did earlier in 2004 when you had some of the, the very first SaaS IPOs coming to market, the success factors of the world, um, who really had to pave the way,…
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now)
- ▶ 8:17 Benedict Evans And then by the 19 nineties, pretty much every enterprise software company is a relational database, but nobody looks at CRM or Salesforce or SuccessFactors and says, well, that won't work because Oracle has all the database.