Ibarra: SaaStr runs its revenue cycle through headless Salesforce
“It shows you what he's hooked up to headless within Salesforce too, because there's multiple things running into this. So he's got class. I call it classic Salesforce for sales, right? So Salesforce CRM that our sales team has always used for like 10 years. He…”
Mooney: Momentum Saves Mangomint AEs 16 Hours Every Month
“Started with our onboarding team, worked backwards to AE, soon BDR and what I noticed is I could quantify that we were going to save 15 minutes per deal. For our AEs, that's 16 hours a month. They, they're 20 wins is their quota.”
Wilson: Companies Will Hire More Ops Staff to Run AI Agents
“We're gonna have a lot more operational folks running the agents, running the data, which will allow the teams to be more efficient”
Wilson: Reaching $100M ARR with Two Reps Is Unrealistic for Most
“That's why I don't really buy yet into, okay, we're gonna have two reps, and we're gonna get to a hundred million, like, sure, that works if you're lovable, like, that can work with the right business, but a lot of us do not have that business, so to hold ours…”
Ibarra: Salesforce will integrate Qualified and Momentum by Dreamforce
“I will say the benefit of Salesforce. Buying qualified momentum is like eventually by probably Dreamforce, right? Those two things will be integrated into one. So we have like two less dashboards and I'll probably have one centralized one by October”
Owner uses Momentum to automate Salesforce field entry from call transcripts
“So we use Momentum that looks at the transcript of every single sales call, and it fills in the Salesforce fields for the rep. It fills in their opportunity record, it updates the account, the person, it says whether or not the event was run or not, all of tha…”
Norton: Owner increased rep selling time by 25% to 30% via automation
“We've, we're probably up 25 to 30% in terms of the revenue generating activity time because they don't have to fill out CRM after. They don't have to update the notes for the launch team. It's all done.”
Stebbings: Company culture is purely driven by business momentum and success
“The only thing that matters about culture is that you have momentum. You're moving forward and that you're successful. I've never met a really successful company with a shit culture.”
Craib: Numerai was unaffected by the January momentum crash
“For example, you know, in January, momentum, the factor crashed, and a lot of quants did badly. Numeri is neutral to momentum, so we basically didn't even notice this crash because we're hedged to that risk, and we do that with as many things as possible to ma…”
Hoover: Momentum is reflexive and critical in early-stage startups
“Momentum matters so much. And momentum is reflexive in that, you know, high momentum leads to more high momentum, low momentum leads to more low momentum, because there's this energy that, that kind of goes through companies where when there is momentum, when …”
Greenblatt: Momentum investing has worked globally for 30 to 40 years
“Over the last 3040 years, whether in this country and across the globe with one or two exceptions, momentum has worked. Over the long term.”
Momentum Factor Is More Important Than Size and Potentially Value
“Really momentum is maybe more important, certainly more important than size and maybe more important than value.”
Momentum Returns Are Driven by Underreaction Bias Rather Than Underlying Risk
“The momentum stuff, I am convinced there's no risk story for, and that is an underreaction bias where people just refuse to process information, which disconfirms their previous news, whether you're long or short.”
Fitzpatrick: Pulling out of early market recovery momentum is a mistake
“As markets started to recover post the first quarter, there was a ton of momentum, and we didn't settle into that momentum. If anything, we added into it, whereas I think a mistake some investors would make is taking their ball and going home at that moment in…”
O'Shaughnessy: Key Investment Factors Historically Succeeded in Only 60-70% of Single Years
“In our research, luckily, those categories are honestly straightforward and simple. They're things like valuation, things like momentum, quality, return of capital. They're not crazy concepts. You just have to apply them with a lot of discipline, and I think t…”
O'Shaughnessy: Factor Strategies Like Momentum Should Never Be One-Off Trades
“So unless you really buy into these concepts at a deep level and are willing to stick with them through cycles, I think you probably shouldn't apply them at all. You shouldn't apply momentum into a one off trade. You should apply it in the right way systematic…”
The size factor is questionable compared to valuation, momentum, and quality
“We think there are some sustainable factors that add value, like valuation and momentum and quality. Size is a little more questionable, in our opinion, but we're still looking at factors all the time.”
Galbraith: Value vs momentum return divergence matches dot-com bubble levels
“So if you look at the factor returns to value versus the factor returns momentum, they're about as divergent as they've been since the tech bubble.”
Altman: Burnout is caused by failure and lack of momentum, not overwork
“At least in my own experience, what I found is that burnout actually comes from failing and things not working. Momentum is really energizing. The lack of momentum is super draining.”