enterprise

also referred to as: enterprises

14 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Nov 2, 2023 by Guillermo Rauch · across every show →

Everything said about enterprise, oldest first

Nov 2, 2023 positive
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Enterprise buyers distrust all-in-one platforms over products that integrate well
“The last thing an enterprise wants to hear is, oh, here's a thing that does everything and promises heaven. It promises that it can do, solve every, every single one of your problems. Folks are just so tuned out of that narrative. It's much better to say, we d…”
Guillermo Rauch Nov 2, 2023 ▶ 33:03 How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
Jan 4, 2024
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The bottleneck for PLG enterprise sales is product-market fit, not headcount
“And I think for PLG companies that are moving into enterprise, your likely bottleneck is not number of heads, number of AEs. Your likely bottleneck is how many companies do you actually have real product market fit on a large scale?”
Oliver Jay Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 57:40 The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
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Oliver Jay: PLG focuses on the user journey, enterprise on the customer journey
“Enterprise, we always use the term customer journey. What's the customer journey? Who are the people in the company who receive different Forms of value along the way that eventually makes the right decision of buying your product, right? And that takes a long…”
Oliver Jay Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 7:53 The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
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Running PLG and enterprise requires operating two completely separate companies
“Winning the enterprise is really, and winning a more traditional PLG motion, it's almost like two separate companies. I think it's a very different way you think about building product, different way you interact with customers, and certainly a very different …”
Oliver Jay Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 2:53 The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Jan 4, 2024
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Software companies cannot become category leaders without winning the enterprise market
“All categories have to go through the enterprise. All winners have to win through the enterprise. There's very few, I really can't think of many of any companies that have become the category leader without winning the enterprise.”
Oliver Jay Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 35:21 The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Jan 4, 2024 neutral
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Oliver Jay: Enterprise product feedback is ~80% field-driven, unlike PLG aggregate data
“On the enterprise side, it is largely dependent on what's coming from the field. I would say 80% probably, and then 20% is like, what, With that feedback, how can you sort of do the, fulfill your customer's job in a better way with your product, with a more in…”
Oliver Jay Jan 4, 2024 ▶ 8:46 The new PLG playbook | Arming the next generation of product-led companies | Oliver Jay (Asana)
Feb 29, 2024 neutral
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Habib: Most impactful enterprise AI sits between raw APIs and generic copilots
“And the most impactful use cases really sit in between kind of those two poles, but it is really hard, expensive, and time consuming to connect large language models with customers' data, with AI guardrails, with business users and business logic.”
May Habib Feb 29, 2024 ▶ 9:42 Scaling and selling AI products for enterprise | May Habib (Co-founder and CEO of Writer)
Apr 29, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Abraham: Reducto limits scope for enterprises since they can build adjacent features
“When we talk to enterprises, we are very focused on what we say is our scope. It's actually been helpful on that lens of they have the engineering bandwidth to build things around it. If we say that this is not what Reducto does, we sort of solve the problem b…”
Adit Abraham Apr 29, 2025 ▶ 30:07 How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
May 8, 2025 positive
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Song: Enterprise-specific features built by Persona almost always generalize to others
“I genuinely think almost every single thing that we build for one enterprise is Almost always universally applicable. Maybe not to every single customer out there, but there is at least three, five, five X the opportunity that one thing that we build benefits …”
Rick Song May 8, 2025 ▶ 46:53 From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
May 8, 2025
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Song: Transitioning from PLG to enterprise forces roadmaps to become much more reactive
“Cultural misalignment of You know, if you go down a platform, trying to build a platform, you oftentimes, I think for product side, you have to have a more, a culture that's more comfortable with reactivity, right? So that I think like culturally too, like for…”
Rick Song May 8, 2025 ▶ 40:57 From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
Oct 23, 2025 neutral
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Stauch: IT workflows vary too widely across companies for fully autonomous AI
“And there's shocking diversity from company to company, not, not even mid-market enterprise, but even within mid-market companies within enterprises on how they want password resets to work on how they want people to get access to applications. All of that end…”
Jake Stauch Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 41:07 Go hard early: How lessons from Verkada shaped this AI-native IT platform | Jake Stauch (Serval)
Nov 19, 2025 neutral
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Enterprise product flexibility creates user experience weaknesses in the mid-market
“In enterprise, you need a high, you want lots of capabilities and lots of flexibility. Lots of capabilities and lots of flexibility could become a complex user experience in, in mid-market. So what's your strength in enterprise could become your weakness in th…”
Jyoti Bansal Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 3:02 How Harness runs 16 “startups within a startup” at scale | Jyoti Bansal (Co-founder and CEO)
May 21, 2026 positive
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Moreno: Change Management Dictates Enterprise Success More Than Technology
“I think in the enterprise, it's very similar and it moves faster, but like change management dictates success in the enterprise more than technology.”
Graham Moreno May 21, 2026 ▶ 2:01 Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
May 21, 2026 positive
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Moreno: AI-native sales cycles compress eight weeks down to eight days
“The sales process is similar, but the time interval of the sales process is very different. Where like an AI native, a process that might take just naturally six to eight weeks in enterprise is like five to eight business days because there's just so much cont…”
Graham Moreno May 21, 2026 ▶ 13:29 Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
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