Common Room, every mention

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi · Acquired Jun 13, 2023 · 16 mentions

• ▶ 16:32 David Rosenthal All right, listeners, for our first sponsor of this episode, we have a new member of the Acquired family that I am very excited about, Common Room.
• ▶ 16:41 David Rosenthal Common Room is the platform that ties community-led growth and product-led growth to revenue.
• ▶ 16:47 Ben Gilbert Yes, Common Room solves a problem that tons of businesses have in this modern era.
• ▶ 17:11 Ben Gilbert But none of these systems tie together, and that's where Common Room comes in.
• ▶ 17:15 Ben Gilbert Common Room captures what is happening across your broader community and marries it with customer data from a HubSpot or a Salesforce and product data in your data warehouse, like Snowflake, so you can see it all in one place.
• ▶ 17:29 Ben Gilbert Common Room unifies customer identity across all these channels.
• ▶ 17:46 David Rosenthal Yes, I actually have a very fun personal story, too, to share about Common Room.
• ▶ 17:51 David Rosenthal After I stopped being a full-time VC to focus on Acquired, I didn't really think I was ever going to invest again professionally, and then Linda, Common Room's founder and CEO, who's been a longtime friend, called me up, said she was…
• ▶ 18:06 David Rosenthal Fast forward, and Common Room is now, I think, the single highest-returning investment that I have ever made, professionally or as an angel.
• ▶ 18:13 David Rosenthal They've now raised over fifty five million dollars from top firms like Madrona, Index, Greylock, and honestly, it gave me the confidence and conviction to then go start Kindergarten Ventures, where Nat and I have now raised and deployed…
• ▶ 18:27 David Rosenthal It's been so awesome just watching Common Room take off.
• ▶ 18:30 David Rosenthal Even in the past year, they went from a beta product to, frankly, one of the most impressive customer rosters I've ever seen.
• ▶ 18:50 David Rosenthal These are all Common Room customers, as are a ton more companies.
• ▶ 18:57 Ben Gilbert So if your go-to-market motion needs greater insight into who is talking about your product and what they are saying, and frankly, as you can tell from Common Room's customer list, basically every modern company does.
• ▶ 1:34:57 Ben Gilbert With that, our thanks to Common Room, Vouch, and PitchBook.
• ▶ 1:35:00 Ben Gilbert Common Room is the platform to manage community-led growth and revenue, and gives you 20% off with the link in the show notes.