Business Software
topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes
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Lemkin: Business process change, not price, is the main software barrier
“Business process change remains an issue for business software. Business process change at the end of the day, and so many founders get this wrong, and 99% of sales folks, they don't care about business process change. Sales folks, they just want to get their …”
Atiyeh: Legacy B2B software catered to buyers while frustrating employees
“You think about a lot of the business products that were built in a previous generation, they were essentially built for decision makers. So you think about building a, I don't know, like an HR tool or anything. It's like, well, who's the decision makers? Like…”
Vohra: Business software should be built using game design principles
“Well, I strongly believe that we should make business software like we make games because when we make products, like we make games, people find them fun. They tell their friends, they fall in love with them.”
Houston: Dropbox Succeeded by Bringing Consumer Playbooks to Business Software
“So a lot of what we did to make Dropbox successful is like, we took a lot of the consumer internet playbook. Applied it to business software from a virality and kind of ease of use standpoint.”
Rahul Vohra: Unresponsive business software is like a broken video game
“Imagine you're playing a game like Street Fighter. It would be incredibly frustrating if the game ignored half your inputs, and your character flopped around, and then you died. But that is the status quo for business software today.”