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“We can build software today. Let's call it five X faster than we could three years ago before all of the coding assistance. Well, if that's true faster, yeah, maybe more than probably more, it's reasonable to believe that in three years from now we can build f…”

“Transactional sort of commodity like sales will be disrupted in ways that support has been disrupted, where more and more revenue will be generated from just pure models, converting website visitors to revenue without the sales touch. And I think that will con…”

“We're going to focus more specifically on outbound, which makes up the majority of Rippling's revenue from an attribution standpoint.”

“I just wanted to join this guy's company because he was going to build a hundred billion dollar business. You know, we didn't realize that outcome with Zenefits. He's going to with Rippling.”

“At Brex, we did not use recruiters, internal or external, to source candidates for the sales organization Ever.”

“We could sort of cheat at Brex in that we could see the payments that were flowing to other cards. We linked to folks' bank accounts and we could see how much they were paying us and we could see how much they were paying American Express.”

“And so the actual result of hiring a bunch more SDRs and AEs wasn't that we had incrementally more revenue, but sort of less efficient revenue on a per rep basis. We actually had less revenue. We closed less revenue by hiring all of these people because it was…”

“I am not seeing much influence on a company's ability to sell their product, to acquire new customers. And I am not hearing, you know, one of the biggest Problems today in our business is that potential customers are cutting budget, and they're not able to buy…”

“One thing that we measured while I was at Brex was conversion rates. When people were selling remote virtually, they didn't meet the customer and conversion rates when people met the customer in person. And when we met a prospective customer in person, we had …”

“When we were a relatively mature startup so let's call it 50 to a hundred million dollars of annualized revenue. One of the things that we noticed was that the AEs were sourcing far more of their own revenue than their SDR counterparts.”

“We measured conversion rates at Brex. When we met a customer in person, we had three X the likelihood of closing that deal than if we didn't.”

“And so like the days of working from home, doing Zooms only to meet with customers, not meeting customers and developing personal relationships those days, I think are going to be a thing of the past, if not already.”

“When we actually measured At Brex, when we did a customer onsite, and the conversion rates of customers that received an onsite versus customers that we tried to close inside, and it was three x. The customers that we met in person had three x the conversion r…”

“When we added all of these new SDRs into the mix, not only were they less effective than the more tenured existing reps, they actually made the existing reps far less successful because we had to tap into this TAM base that people were less likely to convert.”

“Rippling does this really creative strategy where when you are onboarded by one of their customers, so part of their product is onboarding, and when a new hire goes through this onboarding process, Rippling sends them an NPS survey. Anybody that marks that sur…”

“The average the ACV of an SDR generated customer went three X about 30 days after we made the change.”

“The champagne campaign where we sent bottles of Vuv Cliqueau along with handwritten notes from Enrique, and we automated that handwritten note process. Just saying congratulations on your recent fundraise. We're a fellow early stage startup located in the Bay …”

“I think the like biggest data point that we could point to was something like a three X increase in the average opportunity size, because people were going after the opportunities that generated the most, most revenue for the business in a very automated way.”

“On the growth stage side many of the best companies raised a lot of money last year, and given what's happened in the public markets, it's difficult to justify, certainly an up round and maybe even the valuations at which, Those businesses raised, and many of …”

“And at Brex, we started with things like activations. So like number of logo customers that we signed up, you know, there are a lot of like SDR incentives that were around like meetings, that sort of thing. The moment that we switched reps and then eventually …”

“I think there will be a sort of like unified platform that comes together that takes all of these sort of disparate piecemeal processes and basically combines them. So you can effectively say like, this is my TAM. I want meetings. And the output can be, these …”

“The AE sourced opportunities converted at a significantly higher rate to customers, and they generated far more revenue. So the ACV of AE sourced outbound opportunities was significantly, almost exponentially higher than the SDR sourced opportunities.”

“The size of the SDR teams in 20, 20, many years after these products were introduced was significantly greater than the sort of like size or investment made in SDR in 2012 when they first came to market, something like that.”

“At Brex, we started with personal networks, we moved to investor networks, we moved to YC companies, we moved to former YC companies, we then put billboards up all over San Francisco, and we targeted companies that were headquartered in downtown San Francisco …”

“The very day that we launched in GA the product, we put billboards up all over San Francisco. And I think the campaign cost something like 300,000 dollars over three months, but we were everywhere. And that just made everything easier for us.”

“About 80% of Brex's revenue came from sales outbound.”

“The outbound one Brex sort of famously did a champagne campaign where we were sending bottles of champagne as part of outbound crazy high reply rates with that. When most folks were going paid online advertising, Brex did paid offline advertising. We had a geo…”

“We missed the revenue targets that we projected in like Q four of last year, where we thought we would perform in 20, 23. I think that's probably more common than not for SAS businesses in the first half of this year.”

“And what they do is they give an NPS survey At the end of that onboarding. So when I joined Founder's Fund, I onboarded to Rippling. And the NPS survey, I mark it, whatever I mark it, based off of my experience onboarding, I probably marked it a 10. And then I…”

“That was really effective, and it was also really helpful with our outbound, because when we sent an outbound email to somebody whose headquarters was in downtown San Francisco, the probability of them replying was significantly greater, because they had seen …”

“At Brex when we shifted the comp plan for SDR from like opportunities created to revenue generated, and the output of that was a lot more revenue”

“Today, Modern Health is north of a hundred million dollars in ARR.”

“And one thing that is counterintuitive in this environment of layoffs and slow to hiring is that I'm actually seeing more companies looking for a sales leader.”

“Four months into Zenefits we were in 2014, our target was ten million in ARR. We started 20 14 about 500,000 of ARR.”

“We changed the revenue target to twenty million. Like two days later, Parker couldn't keep the secret and we hit it.”

“Brex, where I was most recently CRO, and Divi, where Sterling is currently CRO, were bitter competitors from the time that I joined at least, which was mid 2018, at least through sort of like early 20 20, we were the primary two players in the corporate card, …”

“I think because of that, there will be a lot of companies that were able to raise money last year that aren't forward, aren't able to raise going forward.”

“Codium, most recently valued at over a billion dollars. When Graham joined around this time last year, the company was 30 employees. Fast forward to today, we're at a 150.”

“Ron joined Databricks as CRO when there was less than a million dollars of ARR.”

“We could actually predict things like expansion renewals for Brex. It was card spend. So how much revenue a customer would generate? By their, the actions that they took very early on as a customer. And for us, it was like the first 30 days.”

“Rippling is a 14 plus billion dollar, many thousands of employees, I think 1500 folks in the revenue organization, several hundred million dollars of ARR, and Matt grew that organization and that revenue number from making cold calls in Parker's basement just …”

“But the presumptive close, I think probably increased conversion rates by something like two to three X.”

“Customer happiness, like NPS, lifetime value, the likelihood of churn. We were able to tie all of these things back to the experience that they had in the first 30 days that they were a customer.”

“AE range, 100 to two 50 is, is like the AC is the total comp for a sales rep.”

“We show up, we had task rabbits outside of the event in Brex t-shirts handing out Brexfist burritos to every single person that walked in the venue. So the first experience that they have at Sastra is they get a Brex burrito on when they walk in. Four bucks a …”

“We decided at a very early stage, we were less than a hundred employees, we decided that we were going to open a restaurant and lounge. And so we opened a in South park in San Francisco, we opened a Brex lounge on top of a South park cafe, which was a restaura…”

“Where she was able to scale the business from about two million in ARR is where Ashley joined and left it like three hundred million plus in ARR.”

“Rippling today is several hundred million dollars in AR.”