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4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 26, 2023 by Ashley Kramer · said 28 times in 18 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Dan Siroker (4), Graham Moreno (3), Varun Anand (2), Steve Blank (2), Zack Kanter (1), Yuhki Yamashita (1), Wes Kao (1), Kyle Parrish (1)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2025 10 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- How Wes Kao coaches founders to influence, lead, and get what they want | (Co-founder of Maven)
- Clay's unconventional path to $1.25B: Rethinking GTM, pricing, and enterprise sales | Varun Anand
- Building Meter for decades, not an exit | Anil Varanasi (Co-founder and CEO)
- How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- Saying yes to everything: How customer obsession built Samsara | Kiren Sekar (CPO)
- Inside Guideline's mission to modernize 401(k)s | Kevin Busque (Co-founder and CEO)
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2024 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- How Figma taps into taste, simplicity, and storytelling | Yuhki Yamashita (CPO)
- How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
- Rebooting Intercom: Eoghan McCabe on Defying Silicon Valley Orthodoxy | Co-founder & CEO
- Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- A masterclass in founder conviction | Eilon Reshef (Co-founder and CPO at Gong)
- Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
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2023 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- AI Hot Takes and Unusual Twitter Fundraising Strategies with Dan Siroker (Rewind AI)
- Mastering modern entrepreneurship | Steve Blank (Author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany)
- The business of growing and monetizing an open source product | Ashley Kramer (GitLab CMO/CSO)
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Everything said about Zoom, oldest first
Oct 26, 2023 positive
In-person field events are more effective than ever for enterprise pipeline growth
“And then the other thing that really, really works, particularly in upper mid market to enterprise field events. Field events have been back for about a year and they're almost even more popular now because for two years we all sat in our houses and stared at …”
Dec 21, 2023 positive
Blank: Initial customer discovery via Zoom is a 20x force multiplier
“No, a hundred percent of customer discovery doesn't need to be done on purpose in person. That at least the first level is if you could see someone's pupils dilate via zoom, at least the first level of discovery, it's in fact, much more effective to do. You co…”
Mar 28, 2024 neutral
In 2015, 30% to 40% of mid-market sales calls happened over video
“I would probably want to say 30, 40% of calls were, at the time, it wasn't even Zoom, right? It was Webex and BlueJeans and all sorts of names. Sales were happening. Obviously it was more hybrid than now, mostly for mid-range customers.”
May 22, 2025 positive
Kao: Online lecturers should introduce a state change every three minutes
“It's very hard for audiences to stay focused for an hour or two hours on Zoom, and so I shared a concept I called the state change method, about how every three to five minutes you should have a state change of some sort, whether that's switching from gallery …”