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The most expensive mistake in outsourcing your tech stack | Jay Parikh (EVP CoreAI, Microsoft)
- ▶ 25:07 Jay Parikh You have to connect what you're working with in terms of how somebody's using that thing, or building that thing, or, you know, this platform is operating in this S-Five-Hundred company, right?
How Gamma pulled off their AI pivot | Jon Noronha (Co-founder and CPO of Gamma)
- ▶ 44:49 Jon Noronha I never would have thought that people in Fortune, 25 companies want a product like Gamma right now, because we started with these prosumer-y roots.
Why old-school sales work still wins in the AI era | Graham Moreno (Head of GTM, Parallel)
- ▶ 50:52 Graham Moreno Like, I have sellers who I have pulled accounts from just because they were too busy, where it's like, hey, you're covering three of the fortune 10.
Snowflake’s first sales hire on scaling from $0 to $3.5B | Chris Degnan (Former CRO, Snowflake)
- ▶ 29:42 Chris Degnan and then he sees this large, very, very, very large company like fortune, 50 company land the deal. 2 times in the scene
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 47:27 Zack Kanter It was about the marginal Fortune 500 company, whether they're going to decide to use Slack or whether they're going to get teams for free or bundled in.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 1:22:16 David Cramer Brand can also be, oh, I'm selling a security tool to fortune 500 and nobody else, but my brand is trust.
How a weekend hack became a multimillion-dollar AI startup | Adit Abraham (CEO at Reducto)
- ▶ 22:25 Adit Abraham There's a Fortune 10 customer that we signed on relatively early.
What makes (or breaks) executive hires | A deep dive with Eeke de Milliano (Stripe)
- ▶ 55:55 Eeke de Milliano Most of the data that I've seen on this is Fortune, 1000 companies, and it's usually C-suite.
Building a $4B data platform: Inside dbt Labs' unconventional path | Tristan Handy (Founder & CEO)
- ▶ 42:35 Tristan Handy It was, I mean, I think our seed investors, which that seed investment closed in November of 2019, must've been very happy because within two months of the round closing, we had landed two fortune 500 companies as, as customers.
Shifting Career Altitudes: Insights from a CPO That's Led Nearly Every Function | Anneka Gupta
- ▶ 0:03 Anneka Gupta They had Fortune 500 customers, retail, financial services, that were using this product, and our goal was to migrate all of those customers to LiveRamp's product. 2 times in the scene
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- ▶ 34:28 Krithika Muthukumar Yeah, I mean, taking a zoom back, if you are doing both those segments at the company, like you are selling both to the very low end of the mid market and to the very highest end of the Fortune 500, I think you probably want to get out of…
- ▶ 49:51 Brett Berson Like, you know, trying to get a teenager to use chat GPT is different than a fortune 1000 deciding what
- ▶ 50:26 Krithika Muthukumar Like you have to rail against people getting too specialized into particular product areas because, okay, let's take for example, the global 2000, like the fortune 500 that they just want to work with open AI. 2 times in the scene
Building products that delight customers | Adam Nash (Daffy, Wealthfront, LinkedIn, eBay, Apple)
Winning with open and closed source products | Neha Narkhede (Co-founder at Confluent and Oscilar)
- ▶ 11:42 Neha Narkhede Confluent kind of started with a proven technology that was used at, you know, roughly 50% of Fortune 500 companies at that point in time.
- ▶ 13:16 Neha Narkhede The decision was, it sort of looked like this, you know, I was in a meeting with my co-founder and we were helping a fortune 500 company with some of their Kafka problems in production.
The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
- ▶ 28:20 Brett Berson When you think about enterprise customers, specifically large accounts, fortune, 500 companies is the open source, open core community led strategy, a big part of how you go after that specific customer base.
Lessons from Slack on decision making, product-led growth, and taking big swings | Noah Desai Weiss
- ▶ 18:06 Noah Desai Weiss And then the total other end of the spectrum, we have our enterprise team, which is focused on the needs of the Fortune 1000, the CIOs, the chief security officers, and you know what they don't want you ever to do is run an experiment.
- ▶ 31:28 Noah Desai Weiss And the reality is, you know, I know, 77 of the Fortune 100 use Slack, and probably a hundred of them are Salesforce customers.