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Dalgaard: Took SuccessFactors public earlier than desired due to board pressure
“Because I, honestly, I didn't really want to go public, but my board wanted to go public, and so I was, had a great sense of duty, of doing things that, I mean, obviously, I got a lot of runway, building your own company the way you want it, and so I felt the …”
Dahlgaard: Equal status for sales and engineering was SuccessFactors' top breakthrough
“This is maybe one of the biggest breakthroughs in SuccessFactors history was that we made reps feel like they were as important as engineers.”
Dahlgaard: Sales reps voted non-sales peers onto President's Club trips
“What we did in that case is, we gave them a vote. Who helped you the most this year? And they got to go.”
Dalgaard: I initially took independent board members less seriously than VCs
“My external board members, for some, I can't really explain reason, I just, I took them less serious, and I wish I had taken them more serious”
Dahlgaard: Product managers must include sales reps in roadmap meetings
“And so I made it a rule that product management would never have a meeting discussing roadmap without having sales reps in the meeting.”
SuccessFactors explicitly defined its primary core value as 'no assholes'
“My first one was Respect for the individual. It starts, and it said, no assholes.”