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Bundling software modules destroys internal accountability by hiding inferior underlying products
“But we create a model that we don't bundle things. So each of these modules are sold on their own to create accountability. They will never be best of breed in them. If we don't have accountability to the customer, the minute we bundle it, then you can have li…”
Harness completely rewrites all acquired startup codebases within six months
“Whenever we acquire a small company, we rewrite the code completely in six months to on our platform. So the, all the old code goes away on our platform.”
Harness compounds its revenue growth by launching three internal startups annually
“And every year we are launching three. So you start layering the waterfall of that. We are growing well now. Actually our business growth has accelerated, which at a certain size the growth starts coming down. Part of it is that compounding that comes from tha…”
Harness requires feature parity and a binary differentiator before launching products
“The rule that, that I like to follow is like, we are not launching a new product until we have, these are the table stake parity capabilities. And these are the binary differentiator that we have at least one strong binary differentiator. Maybe it's two, but a…”
Recruiting ability is the primary differentiator of world-class enterprise sales leaders
“I'll tell you that the number one thing that they do extremely well is recruiting.
And it sounds like, you know, you're talking about sales.
Why is recruiting the
Number one thing.
And all I've found is that eventually the sales scaling comes down to ability t…”
Jyoti Bansal spent 25% of his time managing a broken AppDynamics board
“I probably spend, like, One to two percent of my time managing the board in Harness or maybe not even that. In AppDynamics, I had like a kind of a broken board dynamic that I had to spend like. 25% of time, my time managing the board and the shielding our team…”
Jyoti Bansal managed initial sales reps directly until Harness reached $1M
“Actually at harness, I initially didn't hire until the first million, I didn't hire out of sales. And I said, okay, I'll just hire a few reps. I know how to manage them.”
Scaled sales organizations plan revenue around capacity rather than individual deals
“Like to me, it's like a scale sales organization is when you're not talking about deals. You're talking about capacity.”
Former company founders lead half of Harness's 16 internal product startups
“About actually half of our startup founders are former founders.”
Harness operates 16 internal startups across different development and funding stages
“And we have You know, 16 startups inside harness now, and they're all of these different stages.”