Viam
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Horowitz: Onboarding a $1k customer takes similar effort to a $100k customer
“Bringing on a new user, whether they're gonna pay you a thousand dollars a year or a 100,000 dollars a year, the amount of work to onboard them and make them successful is pretty similar. And so you might as well focus on the bigger deals”
Horowitz: Viam customer sales calls use live production demos without slides
“My customer calls. There's no slides. There's no PowerPoint. There's no speech. The 1:05 minutes are me just demoing the product, not like demo where like real world production systems that you can look at and see interacting in real time and actually doing th…”
Horowitz: Monetize open source by commercializing unavoidable infrastructure costs
“Both at Mongo and at VM, the way I always thought about it was, you know, the core product is open source, and that things you'd have to pay for anyway should be commercialized, and by making it really easy and making it the best way to use the product, you ca…”