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Bill Macaitis

Founder & CEO, SaaS CMO Pro · 1 appearance on the record.

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Bill Macaitis is a B2B SaaS marketing executive who led marketing and revenue engines at Slack, Zendesk, and Salesforce. Today, he advises SaaS and AI startups on go-to-market strategies and produces educational marketing content through SaaS CMO Pro.

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1 supported 1 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 2 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

2 assertions · 1 insight · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 2 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Bill argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Macaitis: Slack's freemium tier supports 2,000 users without time limits
“We have a freemium model where it is not, the trial is not time-bound or user-bound, so you can have 2000 people on it can be free”
Bill Macaitis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:45 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Everything Bill Macaitis said on the a16z Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Partly supported
Macaitis: Slack is the fastest-growing messaging app in history
“And here it is kind of being the fastest growing messaging app ever.”
Bill Macaitis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 23:53 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
Insight
Macaitis: Bottom-up software adoption beats upfront seven-figure enterprise contracts
“And I think ultimately it's better for the customers and the companies because they're not signing these seven-figure deals and not even knowing if this stuff works or not. You know, you're doing test beds and small companies and teams validating that the valu…”
Bill Macaitis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:07 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development
Assertion Supported
Macaitis: Slack's freemium tier supports 2,000 users without time limits
“We have a freemium model where it is not, the trial is not time-bound or user-bound, so you can have 2000 people on it can be free”
Bill Macaitis Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 2:45 a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development

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Appearances (1)

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a16z Podcast | The Future of Software Development Jan 2, 2019 3m
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