Zuora

“In the past three months we have almost put in almost, like, 50 plus applications through this process, and 12 of them have already gone into production.”

“So we decommissioned almost like, 40 plus apps in the last two years, and we consulted it with existing apps, and we moved into new apps, so now we have a very healthy set of apps, and the machine is not running, the engine is running now.”

“I would never pay because we need some skin in the game from the vendor who's supporting us.”

“So inbound is very less, I would say, maybe 10 to 20% that we pay attention, but 80% is Outbound because it makes it easy for us.”

“But once the terms and conditions are met, then we come with a four week plan. I don't go beyond four weeks, right, because there's no point in it.”

“Because if it is an established company, we don't have much of a say, we just test the value on the, of the product. But if it is a startup, this is almost like I treat them, I want to treat them as an extension of my team, like a thought partner. How do you g…”

“So ideally I would say two to three months is average. For entire thing, and then the implementation begins, right? And ideally I want to see the value in the first three months, not like six months or nine months.”

“It takes four and a half hours to take one video end to end for one language. And with Truepeer, I can take, I can do one video in four minutes across 10 languages.”

“Yeah, sales and marketing are the biggest spend. I would say it almost like, 30, 35% in that I don't have the numbers top of my head.”

“Even when we take a typical SaaS application, it takes anywhere from two to four weeks for legal compliance, and we were okay with that, because we don't roll out a new SaaS application every month. Maybe every quarter we may roll out like two or three, net ne…”

“So then we realized, you know what, rather than going back and forth for two, four weeks, and at the end of the cycle, they accepted 95% of our needs anyway, right? So I said, why are we doing this convoluted way? Why don't we just give them our document like …”

“I would say almost like one fifth of our portfolio, or like zero to five years kind of in the startup ecosystem.”

“When we talk to the vendor, in the first meeting, we have the business teams in front of us. It's not like IT goes first and business comes. So we have a cross-functional team. That represents an AI, at least in the AI focus. And we keep them updated. We keep …”

“Now, as a matter of fact, we just saw the latest data, almost like 55% of our incidents and requests are, Been solved by the AI agent that Atomic Work provides.”

“I say majority of them, the companies, even though they're based in the US, 80% of their employee base is not in the US.”

“SaaS is becoming more of an execution layer, not an intelligent layer. Now the intelligent layer is moving more towards the AI agents, where it is more autonomous in nature. Where, ah, where, when employees interact with it, they don't interact with the SaaS a…”

“In the last few months at Zora, we have enabled enterprise-wide AI tools. We rolled out Zoom AI Companion. We have rolled out Gemini. We have rolled out Notebook. All the common horizontal use cases, we have rolled it out.”

“Almost 40 to 50% of the employee incidents and requests were addressed by the AI agent.”

“We are only signing one-year contracts, because the technology is changing so fast, and that's why I'm somewhere in the middle.”

“I would say maybe 40 to 50 pitches. Personally, I go to many of these events, I use these events, so I get to get the elevator pitches and all those things. Some, sometimes it resonates, sometimes it doesn't resonate. And I would say what till date we have alm…”

“So I like to go from the initial pitch to closing the sales in less than six weeks.”

“Talking to general population, I would say less, maybe one third of it understand what's possible in AI.”

“They're getting killed in the public markets though. I mean, they're very, they're down a lot.”

“In short order, Peter goes on to do Twitter, Docker, Zora, Hortonworks, New Relic, Elastic.”

“And today it's a fairly commonplace term. I can tell you that it took 10 years for that to hit mainstream though, right? We were saying this in the very early days of the company. Before it hit mainstream was 10 years later, so it is exceptionally hard to go o…”

“As a marketer, there was all this pressure to tell, right, like a huge story, create a category, create a moment, but what really ended up resonating above and beyond that is simply painting for your customers what the current state is, and then positioning, r…”

“I have to say the Series A pitch that Teen Sue, the CEO of Zawara, did. He is an amazing storyteller, and at the time, he painted a vision for the subscription economy and how Zawara was going to be the leader in that category, and he has executed against it b…”