California, every mention
13 scenes · ← back to California
tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Jeff Shiner 3Tomer London 2Kevin Busque 2Wes Kao 1Steve Blank 1Oliver Jay 1Karri Saarinen 1David Cramer 1Chris Degnan 1Alex Kracov 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where California comes up
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- ▶ 19:08 Chris Degnan You know, I, I moved to California late nineties and it was a dot com boom.
How Gusto built a $9.5 billion company by identifying a burning problem
- ▶ 23:33 Tomer London So say, hey, you know, we're only going to do payroll for companies in California with just salaried employees in the particular segment.
- ▶ 40:30 Tomer London We started with payroll just in California, just for salaried employees.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 8:35 David Cramer And then I actually moved to California with that company to San Francisco for about a year.
Inside Linear: Why craft and focus still win in product building | Karri Saarinen (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 9:06 Karri Saarinen And that, that kind of like also got me to move to California or San Francisco.
How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
1Password’s growth story | How they went from bootstrapped to $6B company | Jeff Shiner (CEO)
- ▶ 15:15 Jeff Shiner We would come out to California and just spend a week at a hotel and we were building the app.
- ▶ 32:33 Jeff Shiner And then what we did was we actually went, we came, actually came out to California and talked to a few folks that we knew who were high up in CISO position and that, or security positions at companies. 2 times in the scene
Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
- ▶ 13:25 Adam Guild She's the top-rated dog gamer in all of California now, hundreds of them, and she's built an amazing team.
Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 1:02:53 Kevin Busque They're actually mandated to have one in, in California. 2 times in the scene
The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
- ▶ 46:24 Oliver Jay Because if, if you are enterprise and you get California, it is likely that you have three accounts that have tremendous existing, you know, existing customers already that have tremendous expansion potential.
Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- ▶ 5:31 Steve Blank United States, particularly in California, you couldn't freeze to death, you know, you couldn't go hungry, you couldn't, whatever.
The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- ▶ 32:56 Alex Kracov My first job and what brought me to California was I, um, was a con consultant for Google and I was involved with like Google fibers rollout in different cities.