WebEx
product on 17 shows · 10 statements across 6 episodes · said 82 times in 49 episodes since 2016
Top Founders 21 
20VC 15 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 14 
Acquired 6 
the Neon Show 4 
Capital Allocators 4 
In Depth 3 
American Optimist 3 
A Product Market Fit Show 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
the MAD Podcast 2 
Mixergy 1 
Startups For the Rest of Us 1 
Lenny's Podcast 1 
the a16z Podcast 1 
Big Technology 1 
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2026 5 mentions in 4 episodes 1 per episode
- The New Rules of Startups Moats with 3x Founder Mahesh Ram ex-Zoom Al
- He lost his first 5 deals—built the next Looker, raised $250M | Omni
- Agents Didn't Kill Sales. They Just Exposed It with SaaStrAI CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- How AI Agent Swarms Might Be AI's Next Leap — With Guillaume de Saint-Marc
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2025 10 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Episode 798 | Lessons From 10 Years of SaaS Growth Without a Hock...
- #2280 Read.ai is adding 50k users per day
- From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption
- How to Not F*ck Up Your Meetings
- 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
- $2B Gov Tech CEO's Warning for DOGE · Joe Lonsdale
- Mike Maples: Three Frameworks to Evaluate Startups and Founders | E1242 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2024 14 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Fundraising from VCs and Hiring VPs in 2025: AMA with Jason Lemkin SaaStr CEO
- A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- How to Think About Product-Led Growth, Bootstrapping vs VC, and Early Exits with Jason Lemkin
- How Nike Found Product-Market Fit · PMF Show
- Mike Maples Jr. - Identifying Startup Pattern Breakers (EP.406)
- Jason Lemkin: PluralSight S*** the Bed & The Next IPO Candidates | E1160 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- The surprising truth about what closes deals: Insights from 2.5m sales conversations | Matt Dixon
- Brendon Cassidy: Why You Should Never Hire Someone You Do Not Know in Your First Five Hires | E1124 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 11 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner) · Acquired
- 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
- From 0 to 400M, 10 Mistakes the CEO of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO | SaaStr
- 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
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2021 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- State of the Cloud 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- Luke Ellis – The Man Behind The Man Group (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- 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
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2020 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Somesh Dash, IVP on learnings from the crisis of 2002 & 2008 and investing in resilient companies
- Taking Care Of Your Team and Your Customers with Slack | SaaStr Software Community
- Fireside Chat: Amit Bendov (Founder & CEO, Gong) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- Taimur Hyat – After the Great Lockdown (Capital Allocators, EP.149)
- 1757 How Wistia Hit $18m Revenues, Used $17m Debt from ACCEL KKR To Buy Out $1.4m Seed Investors With Tender Offer
- The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud | SaaStr Software Community
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2019 8 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- 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
- 1425 He Pivoted From IBM Reseller to SaaS in 1998, Now $5m in ARR
- 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
- 5 Myths That Stop SaaS Companies From Moving Upmarket Dropbox's CCO Yamini Rangan (now CEO HubSpot)
- 1400 How he Plans to Reach Profitability in CRM space by EOY
- Jordi Visser – Next Generation of Manager Allocation (Capital Allocators, EP.92)
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2018 10 mentions in 1 episode
2017 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2016 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
- EP 496: PayByGroup $3.4M Raised, $10m in Transaction Volume to Help Groups Pay with CEO Camilo Acosta
- Predictive Analytics for B2B Marketing // Amanda Kahlow, 6Sense [FirstMark's Data Driven]
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10 statements about WebEx, every show
Zima: WebEx Probably Needed to Delete Entire Tech Stack to Beat Zoom
“Like Zoom WebEx is a great example. They probably needed to delete their whole tech stack. And start over again because the platforms had changed because the market had changed in a significant enough way.”
Yuan: Early WebEx required phone calls because VoIP did not work
“Essentially, WebEx was the first generation of, you know, content sharing, the screen sharing. You know, you are so right. At that time, the voice over IP, you know, didn't work. You know, the way for WebEx users to use our technology is to, you know, use a ph…”
Yuan: WebEx's architecture was built for data collaboration, not video
“The way to fix that problem is you got to build something from the ground up because WebEx architecture was not a video collaboration. It's more like a data collaboration.”
Yuan: Could not find a single happy Skype or WebEx customer
“There were so many solutions out there. The market was extremely crowded. However, I did spend a lot of time on talking with those users. Do you like Skype? Do you like WebEx? I did not see a single happy customer who told me that Really like the existing solu…”
Lemkin: WebEx reached $1B ARR before Salesforce
“You know, WebEx was the first billion dollar ARR SaaS company that blew up even before Salesforce.”
In 2015, 30% to 40% of mid-market sales calls happened over video
“I would probably want to say 30, 40% of calls were, at the time, it wasn't even Zoom, right? It was Webex and BlueJeans and all sorts of names. Sales were happening. Obviously it was more hybrid than now, mostly for mid-range customers.”
Gong's first MVP was a Webex bot that used third-party transcription
“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. You'd see like a bot on the call, and what it ba…”
Weiss Multi-Strategy replaces marketing pitch decks with live WebEx analytics
“We don't use marketing decks anymore. We use WebEx's to present, and we show them the baseball cards.”
Yuan: Zoom will not sell, contrasting with WebEx's early acquisition
“No, no, no. We don't want to sell the company. And by the way, you know, I was not a CEO, right? So WebEx, you know, the two co-founders and You know, they are already a public company. They wanted to sell the company back in, you know, in our case, you know, …”