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Stauch: Serval biases hiring toward technical generalists over domain experience
“No, I think we've definitely decided to bias more on really smart generalists that hopefully are technical or quantitative in some way, because I think all these technologies are going to change very quickly. The way of doing things is going to change very qui…”
Stauch: Serval prioritized enterprise compliance on day one, unlike Verkada
“Verkata waited several years to support things like SCIM and SSO and SOC II and various compliance frameworks. We did all of those things from day one because we knew that that was going to be a blocker to sell into the large accounts that unlocked the bigger …”
Stauch: Serval pairs every customer with a core engineer
“Every customer, in addition to having a forward deployed owner, also has a member of the regular engineering team as an assigned person. So every engineer on the team has a deep appreciation, understanding of what we're building, who it's for, why we're buildi…”
Stauch: Serval's product roadmap has remained unchanged since seed pitch
“Our roadmap hasn't really changed in a year and a half. When we first pitched first round, those slides are basically our roadmap today. You know, priorities shifted, but The same core things that we're trying to build are true then as they were true now.”
Serval expects forward-deployed engineers to spend 20%+ time talking to customers
“There is very little difference other than we expect the forward deployed engineer to be spending 20% or more of their time talking to customers.”
Stauch: Serval evaluates every job candidate on their ability to recruit
“We evaluate every candidate on their ability to recruit the next candidate, and we consider that very highly. And that could be them actually being somebody that goes out and makes phone calls and recruits, or also just being somebody who's so good that we kno…”
Stauch: Serval's demo only clicks when showing the workflow builder
“The demo can be kind of broken up into everything that comes before showing the workflow builder and then everything that comes after, because before you show the workflow builder, people are bored and everything you show them, they think they've seen before. …”