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Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where WebEx comes up on Top Founders, 20VC, the Official SaaStr Podcast, Acquired, the Neon Show
He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- ▶ 12:13 Pablo Srugo It's funny, like these spaces, I think of, uh, you know, Zoom coming out of like WebEx.
The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- ▶ 12:35 Mahesh Ram He built Zoom because he was a lead architect at Webex, and he believed that it was too complicated. 2 times in the scene
Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStrAI CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 6:00 Jason Lemkin It was like web before Webex, before zoom, there was a Webex and before, but
How AI Agent Swarms Might Be AI's Next Leap — With Guillaume de Saint-Marc
- ▶ 11:47 Guillaume de Saint-Marc And so we form, ah, we form rooms of agents, a bit like a Webex room or a Slack room, if you want, where people are exchanging.
Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hock...
- ▶ 3:46 Rob Walling So, Google Meet is one Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Discord, Slack, WebEx.
#2280 Read.ai is adding 50k users per day
- ▶ 7:55 David Shim We used to have WebEx.
From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- ▶ 31:04 Jeetu Patel Um, you know, I said, let's start doing design reviews with the WebEx team.
How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- ▶ 6:47 Alex Lieberman And so, a business idea that I've always had is, what if someone created an add-on that plugs into Google Meet or WebEx or Zoom,
20VC: The Daily Deal: Coreweave IPO | Scale Hits $25BN on $2BN EOY Revenue | Sequoia's 25x Return on Wiz | Tech Stocks Tank with Tariffs | Cursor: Defensible or Dangerous Example of Lost Moats in Tech
- ▶ 5:06 Jason Lemkin Webex was on fire.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:27 Jake Saper And before I even joined Emergence in 2014 and 20 13, the firm had developed a thesis around the fact that there was an opportunity to replace Webex, that Webex was a tired product that didn't, wasn't very good. 3 times in the scene
$2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 30:30 Joe Lonsdale This is ironic, because John did WebEx to help people work together across the world.
Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 39:32 Mike Maples But like Eric had been at, at Cisco as part of Webex for 10 years.
How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 10:54 Jason Lemkin Webex created it on the web.
- ▶ 20:54 Jason Lemkin I was personally pretty darn good at hustle marketing, getting us in media, getting us, getting other folks to promote us, getting Webex and Salesforce and Zoho and a million people to promote us.
Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- ▶ 1:07:00 Mike Maples, Jr. He'd been at WebEx inside of Cisco for 10 years.
Fundraising from VCs and Hiring VPs in 2025: AMA with Jason Lemkin SaaStr CEO
- ▶ 4:01 Jason Lemkin I think we make this too complicated and early apps like WebEx 3 times in the scene
Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:15 Jason Lemkin We have been trying software on the internet since Webex, since the early days.
The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- ▶ 5:21 Matt Dixon Cause a lot of the really critical sales meetings took place, of course, in the client's office until March of 2020, when that all changed and the entire sales process for every company on earth went to zoom and teams and webex and other…
A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- ▶ 5:36 Eilon Reshef It was Webex and BlueJeans and all sorts of names. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:26 unnamed speaker So I put together myself, like the first prototype, I kind of forced myself to remember how to code, and then we put together a very basic software system, and what it did, it basically joined Webex calls as a bot.
How Nike Found Product-Market Fit · PMF Show
- ▶ 9:13 Pablo Srugo There's creating a 10 X product, which is like what zoom does to Webex.
- ▶ 16:43 Pablo Srugo Again, this is more like a Zoom WebEx.
Brendon Cassidy: Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires | E1124 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:16 Brendon Cassidy He was at like WebEx.
Ep 62: Ben Rubenstein Says Resumes Are Useless; Here's How to Find the Best Salespeople · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 8:42 Ben Rubinstein So in the early days, it was going door to door, and we thought we were going to replace the Yellow Pages like they did, but we found, especially this was the early days of GoToMeeting, WebEx, you know, what's now much better video…
How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- ▶ 5:17 Alex Lieberman And so, a business idea that I've always had is, what if someone created an add-on that plugs into Google Meet or WebEx or Zoom,
John Chambers & Pankaj Patel Changed the World with Cisco. Now They're Doing It Again with Nile. · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 3:42 Pankaj Patel The Webex team was in China, so we were, like, you know, in,
Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- ▶ 10:22 Eric Yuan You know, look at Skype, look at Google Home, look at WebEx, it's dominating, right?
- ▶ 18:13 Eric Yuan So the year, the two years before I started company, I know actually, you know, WebEx really sucks, right?
- ▶ 19:03 Eric Yuan First of all, at that time, my passion was very straightforward, because, you know, WebEx is more like my baby, right?
- ▶ 20:26 David Rosenthal How, how did you select for, uh, maybe both of you, but Eric, Eric, to start, because you brought so many people with you from Webex.
- ▶ 41:29 Peter Gassner If your product was, your product was twice as good as WebEx, right?
- ▶ 1:06:02 Eric Yuan In terms of failure scenario, I would say maybe you go back to use WebEx, that's a failure scenario, so.
20 Sales: Zoom's Head of North America Sales on When To Hire a Head of Sales, Why You Should Hire a Head of Sales Before Sales Reps, The 3 Traits to Look for When Hiring Sales Reps & What Sales Leaders Can Do To Make Their Sales Team Feel Like They Are Wi
- ▶ 4:18 Mitch Tarica So I got right into selling services, selling solutions for customers, and then in 1999, I joined this very small startup company called WebEx, helping people think very, very differently, and this very out there concept of convincing the… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:05 Mitch Tarica We do a lot of certifying here, and I did certifying when I was sales rep number 10 at WebEx, all the way to, you know, leading a thousand here.
From 0 to 400M, 10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO | SaaStr
- ▶ 10:18 Henry Schuck And I bet if you ask WebEx users and Citrix users, how they felt about their conferencing solution, like early on, they might tell you like, oh, I hate conferencing.
20VC: The Robinhood Memo: The Early Metrics That Showed Robinhood was a Breakout Company, The Cost Structure of Robinhood in the Early Days and Why it is a More Efficient Business than eTrade & How Vlad Has Developed as a Leader Over Time with Rick Yang a
- ▶ 0:18 Harry Stebbings Starting with Scott, since joining the firm in 1996, he's led investments in Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, Webex, and Workday, and serves on the board of Robinhood,
State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 14:29 Elliott Robinson In the video conferencing space, I think many of us have probably heard Eric talk about his days at WebEx when he was leading engineering, and he woke up one day and he said, I don't have a lot of happy customers anymore.
Luke Ellis – The Man Behind The Man Group (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- ▶ 1:01:12 Luke Ellis Is we started a set of Webex zooms where somebody would talk about their personal interest.
20VC: NEA's Scott Sandell on SPACS and Why Liquidity is One of the Challenges of our Time, Why We Are At An Inflection Point For Secondaries & Why There Is Nothing To Suggest The Boom Will Not Continue
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Scott has led investments in many industry-transforming technology companies, including Salesforce, Tableau Software, Webex, and Workday, to name a few.
Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 15:39 Amit Bendov It builds into like native API, but anything from all the web conferencing, um, Zoom, uh, WebEx, uh, Google Meet, Amazon, Chime, whatever you're using, uh, Microsoft Teams, obviously, uh, most of the telephony systems, uh, cell phones,
Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- ▶ 45:57 Taimur Hyat They miss their colleagues, they miss what one of them said was a three-D view of the world rather than the two-D view through Zoom and Webex and so on.
Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- ▶ 34:15 unnamed speaker Um, and so Zoom was through a combination of those things where we knew we were, um, investors in Webex and the public markets. 2 times in the scene
1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer
- ▶ 13:28 Chris Savage I was always a fan of like, when someone asked me what the market size was, I'd be like, I don't want to tell you what the market size was, but I will tell you, if you look at WebEx, you look at GoToMeeting, you look at the number of…
Taking Care Of Your Team and Your Customers with Slack | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 4:30 Stewart Butterfield Um, and they were describing how they had just rolled out Webex to the company last year, but they talked about it like they were in the Vietnam war and it was just awful.
- ▶ 9:42 Jason Lemkin And, um, what, with, with, with, how have you evolved like your onboarding process and making customers more successful, especially with folks that are maybe the one you described that had spent five years evaluating Webex.
The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 3:00 Jason Lemkin 22nd as big as we can before we break the WebEx or that's just a joke, the zoom.
20VC: Inside The Acquisition Decision-Making Process at Cisco, How To Measure True Success in M&A Evaluation & Why By Not Speaking To Corp Dev Teams You Are Closing The Door On The Biggest Potential Accelerator To Your Business with Rob Salvagno, VP of Co
- ▶ 42:39 Rob Salvagno So if we were doing this podcast over WebEx, what Voiceia would be able to do is it would actually transcribe in real time our entire conversation.
20VC: Lightspeed's Arif Janmohamed on Why Market Risk Is The Most Dangerous Risk To Underwrite As A VC, How To Determine When to Stretch vs Not on Price Today & The $TRN of Market Cap Up For Grabs Today In Enterprise
- ▶ 0:37 Harry Stebbings And prior to Lightspeed, Arif worked in the corporate business development team at Cisco as part of transaction leadership and execution on a number of great deals, including the likes of Webex.
- ▶ 6:53 Arif Jan Mohamed So I worked in the corporate development group, the mergers and acquisitions group at Cisco, worked on five amazing deals, the largest being WebEx and a number of others that were smaller scale.
5 Myths That Stop SaaS Companies From Moving Upmarket Dropbox's CCO Yamini Rangan (now CEO HubSpot)
- ▶ 8:29 Yamini Rangan WebEx did this beautifully when they started, and they grew in the 2000, and VMware did the same thing.
1425 He Pivoted From IBM Reseller to SaaS in 1998, Now $5m in ARR
- ▶ 16:00 Mickey Patton My favorite online tool, uh, WebEx. 2 times in the scene
1400 How he Plans to Reach Profitability in CRM space by EOY
- ▶ 9:42 Tim Hampson So, um, it's just a question going through things like Skype, WebEx, et cetera.
Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
- ▶ 56:54 Jordi Visser We use WebEx's to present, and we show them the baseball cards.
1014 Zoom CEO on Killing His Old WebEx Baby With $150m+ in ARR
- ▶ 1:03 Nathan Latka As one of the founding engineers and vice president of engineering at Webex, he was the heart and soul of the Webex product from 97 to 20 11. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:05 Eric Yuan That's what we did before at Webex. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:19 Eric Yuan I left at Cisco end of June of 2011, and that's how I started Zoom, and one month later, some top Webex engineers, they quit and followed me to start, to join Zoom.
- ▶ 6:06 Eric Yuan And, uh, when I started, I, I, I did raise the three million seed funding from all the Silicon Valley, you know, angel investors or friends, and some, you know, ex-Cisco executives, some former WebEx executives as well, and then later on…
- ▶ 20:01 Nathan Latka He was part of the original Webex team group to eight hundred million in sales, sold it to Cisco.
809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model
- ▶ 11:50 Barry Clapp We have several training rooms here that people come to, and we do it remote sometimes via WebEx, uh, and that kind of thing.
741: Exited for $15m, Now Tackling Healthcare Patient Doctor Relationships
- ▶ 18:23 Nathan Latka And so you're actually just understand like most software companies, they'll just have like Amazon WebEx, like those kinds, you know,
Sales Mistakes that Can Kill Your SaaS Business & How to Avoid Them
- ▶ 8:57 Michelle Law Um, I hired them from WebEx. 2 times in the scene
EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
- ▶ 17:13 Nathan Latka It's a WebEx and GoToWebinar killer.
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
- ▶ 2:07 Gary Guseinov Uh, so Business Hangouts is a, is a web conferencing and webinar platform, very similar to Zoom, WebEx, and, ah, GoToMeeting. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:03 Gary Guseinov Our competitors, Zoom, Web, WebEx, GoToMeeting, they don't have it. 2 times in the scene
Predictive Analytics for B2B Marketing // Amanda Kahlow, 6Sense [FirstMark's Data Driven]
- ▶ 9:49 Amanda Kahlow For BlueJeans, when somebody's getting ready to buy BlueJeans or WebEx or another video conferencing tool, where are they in that purchase funnel so I can talk to them with the right message at the right time?