Fortune 100

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Alaruri: B2B startups should target lower mid-market over Fortune 100 first
“My opinion is it's much better to start in like the lower mid market because it's more repeatable. There's more volume, et cetera. And also have a couple of conversations with large enterprise to make sure that like it validates for them as well.”
Tarek Alaruri Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 23:12 How this AI founder is on track to hit $50M ARR just 2 years after launch. | Tarek Alaruri, Co-Fo... · PMF Show
CHEEKY PINT Assertion Not checkable as stated
Half of Fortune 100 and one-sixth of new Delaware corporations use Stripe
“From top corporate leaders, half of the Fortune 100 uses Stripe. To hyper-growth companies, we count 80% of the Forbes Cloud 178% of the Forbes AI-fifty as customers. To newly formed upstarts, one in six new Delaware corporations incorporates with Stripe Atlas…”
John Collison Feb 24, 2026 ▶ 1:47 Stripe’s 2024 annual letter
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Nelson: Millions of developers and half the Fortune 100 use Roboflow
“Now, millions of developers, half the Fortune 100, build with RoboFlow's tools and infrastructure to create and deploy models to production.”
Joseph Nelson Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 3:44 SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)
SOURCERY Opinion
Bhargava: Roughly 95% of Fortune 100 AI initiatives have failed to deliver
“We haven't seen a lot of people implement AI effectively to date, and we're generally in the view, along with that MIT study, that maybe 95% of these Fortune one hunters have tried, and they said it's kind of a waste, and it didn't really work, and it was jank…”
Mark Bhargava Dec 5, 2025 ▶ 30:06 Inside General Catalyst’s $1.5B AI Roll-Up Machine · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
20VC Insight
Degnan: Mid-market sales failures are inconsequential compared to burning Fortune 100 prospects
“You can fail, like, you can fail in the mid-market a bunch, and then not be super consequential. If you fail in the, you know, Fortune 100, Good luck getting another, another chance.”
Chris Degnan Oct 10, 2025 ▶ 41:43 20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
INVEST LIKE THE BEST Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fortune 100 enterprise customer support volume is 90% to 95% phone calls
“But the, if you just think about the large enterprises, like the fortune 100, they just been around for so long. And everyone's just calls them. So voice is just like disproportionately higher there. Like a lot of them are 90, 95% voice and five percent chat.”
Jesse Zhang Oct 6, 2025 ▶ 37:05 The Future of AI Agents | Jesse Zhang Interview · Invest Like The Best
Startups Cannot Successfully Go Public Selling Only to Fortune 100 Companies
“You can't be a public company, or I should say, it's almost impossible to be a public company only selling to the Fortune 100.”
Andrew Rubin Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 41:37 1st-time founder raises $140M with $0 revenue—grows to 800 employees & profitable. | Andrew Rubin... · PMF Show
20VC Assertion Not checkable as stated
Kim Graves: Fortune 100 executives cannot be reached via PLG motions
“Executives of fortune, 100 companies aren't typically tinkering with the latest technology. They're focusing on their business priorities. They're focusing on How to drive the business forward. And you don't get in front of those people with a product led moti…”
Kim Graves Jun 27, 2025 ▶ 44:38 20Sales: How to Layer Enterprise Sales on PLG | How to Sell AI Tools To Enterprises That Are Scared | Should Reps Own Their Own Pipeline | Mistakes All Founders Make When Moving From Founder-Led to Rep-Led Sales with Kim Graves
Puri: AI founders should sell tools to McKinsey for distribution
“I don't think enough tech teams build tools for the consultants who have already done the sale. Because what McKinsey's amazing at is they got this relationship with a Fortune 100 company. They're on retainer. They're getting paid millions of dollars a year. A…”
Shaan Puri May 2, 2025 ▶ 12:24 Asking A Billionaire How To Make $1,000,000
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yampolskiy: 70% of Fortune 100 are paying SecurityScorecard customers
“Today, where 70% of the Fortune 100 uses us. Nathan Latka: As a paying customer. Aleksandr Yampolskiy: As a paying customer, about 500 employees, 70% of Fortune 100”
Alex Yampolskiy Jan 7, 2025 ▶ 3:14 3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash
20VC Insight
Selling to Fortune 100 and SMBs simultaneously will kill early startups
“If you all of a sudden are trying to go to the fortune 100, and also sell to SMBs, you're gonna fail.”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 7:55 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
20VC Insight
Early-stage sales teams should not segment or rush upmarket too early
“I think the worst thing you can do early stage as a sales organization and a go to company is segment too early and move way up market and just like, let's say we rewind the clock. If I all of a sudden moved all my sellers to just focus on the Fortune 50 or Fo…”
AJ Tennant Oct 23, 2024 ▶ 17:20 AJ Tennant: How to Build a Sales Machine and Where Most Go Wrong | E2118 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
MY FIRST MILLION Assertion Contradicted
Parr: Roughly 80% of Fortune 100 companies use Wiz
“Something like 80% of the Fortune 100 companies are already using the tool.”
Sam Parr Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 35:59 10 Startups w/ Stock Grants That’ll Make You A Millionaire | Sara’s List 2024
MAD Assertion Supported
Riparbelli: Synthesia has over 50,000 customers and 35% of Fortune 100
“Now we run the world's biggest AI video platform. More than 50,000 customers work with more than 35% of four to 100.”
Victor Riparbelli Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 5:55 Democratizing Video Creation with AI: Lessons From Synthesia’s Journey to 50k+ Customers
IN DEPTH Assertion Partly supported
Weiss: 77 of the Fortune 100 use Slack
“77 of the Fortune 100 use Slack, and probably a hundred of them are Salesforce customers.”
Noah Desai Weiss Jul 13, 2023 ▶ 31:28 Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
a16z Assertion Supported
Ismail: Top exponential Fortune 100 companies outperformed bottom 10 by 40x
“Over a seven-year period, the top 10 did better than the bottom 10 by three x on revenue growth 6.4 times on profitability, 10.9 times on return on assets, but shareholder returns, compound annual growth rate, top 10 outperformed the bottom 10 by 40 x.”
Salim Ismail May 25, 2023 ▶ 40:47 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
a16z Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ismail: Top 10 ExO companies responded to COVID-19 pandemic five times better
“And what was really incredible was, ah, when the pandemic hit, these, the top 10 did five times better than the bottom 10 in responding to the pandemic, right?”
Salim Ismail May 25, 2023 ▶ 41:39 The Rise of the Exponential Organization with Peter Diamandis and Salim Ismail
CATALYST Assertion Supported
Bullard: Only 1.2% of Fortune 100 board members have energy expertise
“Like you find 1.2% of the Fortune 100 board knows anything about energy.”
Nat Bullard Mar 2, 2023 ▶ 46:12 More 2023 trends: EVs, onshoring, and the three ages of decarbonization
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Marooney: 80% of the Fortune 100 Use Airtable
“I think it's, what is it, 80% of the Fortune 100 use Airtable.”
Caryn Marooney Dec 20, 2022 ▶ 0:52 Scaling for the Enterprise: Top 5 Lessons on the Upmarket Journey with @AirtableApp CEO Howie Liu
ANOTHER PODCAST Assertion Contradicted
Evans: Microsoft did not enter the Fortune 100 until 2002 or 2003
“Microsoft was not in the Fortune 100 until I think 2002 or 2003.”
Benedict Evans Jul 25, 2022 ▶ 36:33 When the point of leverage changes
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Airtable serves over 300,000 organizations and 80 percent of Fortune 100
“We started from scratch, but we also operate at scale, serving over 300,000 organizations of all shapes and sizes, including 80% of the Fortune 100.”
Archana Agrawal May 28, 2022 ▶ 2:12 The Secrets to Building Your Marketing Engine To Drive Scale with Airtable CMO Archana Agrawal
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Darbyshire: Archer Technologies secured 76 Fortune 100 clients within six years
“At the end of the day, I think we had 76 of the fortune 100 were customers after like the first six years of the company.”
Jon Darbyshire May 1, 2022 ▶ 5:09 How he hit $1m with no FTE's (Fiverr contractors only)
MAD Assertion Not checkable as stated
Eifrem: Over 75% of Fortune 100 companies use Neo4j
“Over 75% of the Fortune 100 are using NeoFj today, so all 20 of the biggest banks in North America, all 20 of them are using NeoFj, seven of the 10 The biggest retailers in the world are using NeoFj for the five biggest, biggest telcos.”
Emil Eifrem Feb 7, 2022 ▶ 19:41 Fireside Chat: Emil Eifrem (Co-Founder & CEO, Neo4j) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Tejada: PagerDuty serves over 65 Fortune 100 and 45% of Fortune 500
“PagerDuty now serves more than 65 of the Fortune 100, and more than 45% of the Fortune 500.”
Jennifer Tejada Oct 16, 2021 ▶ 16:56 Hyperscaling At Scale with PagerDuty's CEO, Jennifer Tejada | SaaStr Software Community
NEON SHOW Assertion Not checkable as stated
Jain: Mobalt secured 15 Fortune 100 clients and near-profitability within 18 months
“We had if I'm not wrong almost 15 or fortune hundred companies. We had three of the top 10 brands in the world. It was a wild success. And we almost became profitable in a year and a half of operations.”
Kshitij Jain Sep 20, 2021 ▶ 18:22 Kshitij Jain, Founder Joveo, a 2x founder on must-have skills for entrepreneurs
STARTUPS FOR THE REST OF US Assertion Not checkable as stated
Geocodio closed a Fortune 100 customer after a 14-month sales cycle
“Earlier this year, or this summer, we signed a Fortune 100 customer for that product, and I started talking to them in May of last year.”
Michelle Hansen Nov 24, 2020 ▶ 22:13 Episode 524 | Bootstrapping a Commodity SaaS
SAASTR Assertion Supported
Roger Scott: New Relic exceeds $550M ARR with 50%+ Fortune 100 penetration
“We're a five hundred and fifty million dollar plus ARR company. Since, you know, over the last four years, going from 140 to five 50, we're still growing at 30 to 35%. We've re-accelerated growth. If you look today, over 50% of the Fortune 100 would now use ou…”
Roger Scott Jul 30, 2019 ▶ 4:45 "7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale" New Relic EVP, Roger Scott
SAASTR Assertion Supported
New Relic serves over 17,000 customers including half of Fortune 100
“Today we have more than 17,000 customers including 50% of the Fortune 100, And the 17,000 customers are broken up into what we would, ah, call about 2000 enterprises, and you see a lot of our current customers up there, and 15,000, ah, disruptors.”
Erica Schultz Jun 27, 2019 ▶ 1:23 Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Patrick Morley: Carbon Black Serves 4,300 Global Customers and 35+ Fortune 100
“I just give you a sense that we have 4300 customers globally. We have 35 or 36 of the Fortune 100.”
Patrick Morley May 9, 2019 ▶ 5:04 1384 CyberSecurity SaaS CarbonBlack Passes $200m ARR Charging $30/Device/per
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Fatfinger counts Exxon and Fortune 100 companies as customers
“We have from Exxon to other you know, Fortune, 100 companies using the platform”
James McDonough Jan 21, 2019 ▶ 7:12 1276 Workers on Oil Rigs Build Apps Using His Tool
a16z Disclosure
A majority of Fortune 100 companies use Tanium
“And what we now have is the preponderance of the Fortune 100 who are using us, who can demonstrate that they're becoming more secure by following really block and tackle things.”
Orion Hindawi Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 17:05 a16z Podcast | The Fundamentals of Security and the Story of Tanium’s Growth
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sococo Reaches Tens of Thousands of Users and Fortune 100 Clients
“So we have scaled you know, into the good, strong five digits of users and several hundred, hundred customers. [757] Nathan Latka: Okay. [757] Mark Kirschbaum: And these include fortune 100 companies.”
Mark Kirschbaum Oct 26, 2018 ▶ 12:30 1189 Sococo is a Visual Slack doing $240k MRR, 60% yoy Growth
SAASTR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Beri: Netskope captured 25% of Fortune 100 in four years
“You said you have 25% of the Fortune 100? Yeah. Right? And in four years of selling or so? Yeah, we just finished our fourth year.”
Sanjay Beri Oct 23, 2018 ▶ 19:46 The Road to Building a 100 Year Company
SAASTR Disclosure
Beri: Netskope signed first Fortune 100 clients on $5.5M round
“We did our first round with Mamoon, and we took, you know, five and a half million, right? And we got our first cup of Fortune 100 through that”
Sanjay Beri Oct 23, 2018 ▶ 21:43 The Road to Building a 100 Year Company
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Grayevsky: Mya Systems supports 12% of the Fortune 100
“We support 12% of the Fortune 100 today.”
Eyal Grayevsky Oct 9, 2018 ▶ 6:04 1172 How He Pivoted to $30m in Funding, 10,000+ Jobs Placed with Recruiting AI Tool
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Girvin: Orchestra CMS landed Fortune 100 clients within six months
“Within six months of launching the product, we were into fortune 100 companies.”
Douglas Girvin Apr 19, 2018 ▶ 5:23 999 He Bet Big on Salesforce, Now His CMS Does $7.5m
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Treehouse sells to over 600 businesses including Fortune 100 clients
“So we sell to over 600 businesses have huge clients that are fortune 100.”
Ryan Carson Feb 26, 2018 ▶ 2:41 947 Is He The New King of Education? 80k Student Customers and $24m in Revenue Says "Yes!"
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Alexander: ConceptDrop closed a six-figure enterprise deal with Fortune 100 client
“We've kind of gone from selling those individual projects to closing Six figure contract with a fortune 100 company.”
Phil Alexander Aug 17, 2016 ▶ 10:11 EP 389: ConceptDrop Raises $1.1M, Helps You Get Creative Work Done Quick with Phil Alexander EP389

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