Brett Queener
Partner, Bonfire Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Queener spent over a decade at Salesforce as an early executive and later served as COO of SmartRecruiters. At seed-stage VC firm Bonfire Ventures, he focuses on leading investments in B2B application software and mentoring founders.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Brett Queener said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Queener: 75% of App Software Companies and 50% of Categories Will Disappear
“75% of all applications offer companies that you see today are going to disappear. And 50% of all applications, software categories are going to disappear.”
Queener: 80% of code is currently written by AI
“First, 80% of code is getting written by AI. Now for large companies that have large legacy data code bases, it's a little harder, but like you all are seeing that a lot of the coding is written by AI”
Queener: 30 years of SaaS created CRUD databases that don't help workers
“All the software I've associated is garbage because they're crud databases that somebody logs into enters information. Somebody else has a report that measures their performance, but in doing their job and whatever they have to go do, it doesn't help you do yo…”
Queener: Anthropic's MCP is destroying historical software integration walled gardens
“MCP, if you don't, haven't dug into it, is game changing. It is destroying historic walled gardens from an integration perspective.”
Queener: Legacy SaaS needed sales overhead because products did not do the work
“Like all of this is because when you delivered the product, it didn't deliver value. A customer would have to use your product and then go do their job. But you have a product now with a what the fuck interface to look at and they realize in their head, oh my …”
Queener: Agentic AI Enables Multi-Product Expansion in One Month
“The reality is that you're not building screens. If you have the metadata and your agent interface understands the context, you can do it in a month.”
Queener: Enterprise Workers Will Refuse to Use Multiple AI Agents
“Customers,
Don't want to use multiple agents. A salesperson, an individual functional role does not want to use seven agents.”
Queener: Startups must work in-office because rapid iteration requires it
“You're going to be in the office. We're going to iterate because the iteration loops are so fast in this new era. It's just not going to work otherwise.”
Queener: Modern AI Startups Replace PRDs with Interactive Prototypes
“And I'd say our most leading edge companies like design and product is just building prototypes. There's no doc. There's heading prototypes to dev success or support that we moved out of dev normally is back in dev because the iteration loops to hear from supp…”
Queener: Customers make great PMs for agentic software solving pure pain points
“What is interesting now in a world, which you're not building screens, but you're solving problems, as long as you're smarter customers, at least they're actually very good product managers. They're giving you use cases or pain points that I want you to solve …”
Queener: AI is coming for the multi-billion dollar SI industry
“Don't say that to all my SI friends out there, but AI is coming for the multi-billion dollar SI industry.”
Queener: Tech Stack Layers Including AI Inference and Reasoning Are Commoditized as Services
“So much of the tech stack is being commoditized as a service, especially inference and reasoning”
Queener: A $250M seed fund requires $10B in net exit value
“We just raised a two hundred fifty million dollar seed fund, which I wish somebody had told me the economics of venture capital before I got into it. But a two hundred fifty million dollar seed fund means the return ten billion net exit value for the LPs to ge…”
Queener: Startup playbooks are outdated; founders must iterate products every 30 days
“If we think about all the blogs that you read and all the shit about here's how to go do this, it's all predicated in a world where your product kind of changes once a year. But what happens if your product changes every 30 days, which, oh, by the way, if you'…”
Queener: Startups must build products so dramatic customers disbelieve them
“If your product doesn't make people go that can't work, keep trying because that's the bar for winning right now.”
Queener: Three-Month Out Clauses Skip Months of Enterprise Sales Friction
“The three month out is you get them in and the users are in and you figure out onboarding is probably the most important part of what's changed in the SAS playbook. You've just skipped three months of a sales process that people injected the back of it, a sale…”
Queener: Agentic startup targeting plumbers adds $1.5M monthly at low burn
“We have businesses that target one to five plumbers, contractors, et cetera. The team goes outbound with an agentic solution. They're adding a million and a half a month and their magic number is like 1.5 and their cash burns like .5 because the product does t…”
Queener: Building vertical software is five times easier than horizontal
“Vertical as a founder is five times easier to go do than horizontal.”
Queener: Bonfire AI-native portfolio startup scaled to $20M in 18 months
“I was sitting with one of our AI native companies that's off to the races, went from zero to twenty million in 18 months, and I'm in their Slack feed, and dev is just releasing shit like every seven days.”
Queener: Software startups must invest disproportionately in product marketing
“What I will say is you need to invest disproportionately in product marketing talent. Most software companies, product marketing organizations are horrible.”
Queener: The model of pairing AEs with separate SEs is obsolete
“I think the world of an AE and a separate SE are gone. I mean, unless like you're selling at the infra level and it's super technical, like I can't imagine an account executive who doesn't fundamentally understand the product.”
Queener: Sales tech startups plunged from 175% NRR to 70% GRR
“We saw companies, all the sales tech tools that went from 175% NRR to 70% GRR in a year.”
Queener: Rapid Product Releases Fail If Users Cannot Absorb the Change
“Just because you can ship quickly doesn't mean it's a good thing because if you ship something like if it, if a tree falls in the forest and no one's there and they don't understand and they don't see it to the tree actually fall, which is humans could only ab…”
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