Alex Rinke
9 statements across 2 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 13, 2020 by Alex Rinke · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Alex Rinke's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Everything said about Alex Rinke, oldest first
Aug 13, 2020 neutral
Aug 13, 2020
Celonis bootstrapped without outside capital for its first five years
“So, so actually we didn't raise money for half a decade. We raised three hundred sixty million or sixty-seven million cents. The first, so the company has been around for nine years, and the first five years we didn't raise a cent.”
Aug 13, 2020 neutral
Enterprise startups often underprice their software, ruining their sales unit economics
“I think a lot of entrepreneurs, if they sell to the enterprise, underestimate the effort of selling to the enterprise and end up selling their products so cheap so that the sales process is so cumbersome that you can't really invest into it.”
Aug 13, 2020
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Rinke: Experienced tech leaders often agree to mentor founders via cold email
“You wouldn't believe like what kind of people you just email. Hey, can you get on a call with me to, you know, to, you know, I'm trying to do the startup and, you know, I want to learn something that actually are going to mentor you and help you.”
Feb 8, 2024 negative
Alex Rinke: Hiring a large sales force is not a GTM strategy
“Just hiring a lot of salespeople, right? It's not a go-to-market strategy. And that's what a lot of startups did, right? Hey, we have just got a hundred million dollars in funding. We're going to hire tons of salespeople. They know how to do this. Good luck. T…”
Feb 8, 2024
Feb 8, 2024