R And D
topic on 6 shows · 7 statements across 7 episodes
We Live to Build 
Lenny's Podcast 
My First Million 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
the a16z Podcast 
Big Technology
7 statements about R And D, every show
Summers: Companies Will Cut R&D Spend But Pay Top Developers Significantly More
“I think the future here is we're going to be paying good developers a heck of a lot more you know, we'll probably spend less on our R and D overall, but the good developers will make a ton more.”
Dietrich: Atlassian Spent 2x-3x More on R&D Than Benchmark SaaS Peers
“And so here we're spending two times, three times as many dollars in R and D as many other companies that we benchmark against to make a product that really sold itself.”
Winter: 99% of market innovation is gluing tools together, not R&D
“99% of the market. It's not R and D it's just like gluing different things together. And developing something new.”
Wilkinson: Canadian government covers 30% of small business R&D expenses
“The government will actually pay 30% of your R and D when you're a small company. And I just didn't know about that. And so I literally lit a million dollars on fire. I could have gotten a million dollars of these tax credits and I didn't write.”
Tucker: BlackLine Doubled R&D During the Pandemic as Rivals Retreated
“Because we have a very healthy balance sheet, We viewed it as a tremendous opportunity to invest heavily in R and D where many of our smaller competitors sort of pull back, right? Because they were very worried about where the future was going. We said, great,…”
Casado: Software R&D is a fixed cost, while sales scales linearly
“Like over time, R and D pencils out as almost a fixed cost, or at least like super sublinear, right? You know, you've got a number of engineers, but sales scales linearly with a number of people on the ground.”