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Cancel: Enterprise software will move away from dozens of loosely coupled tools
“I think the reality that we're in, especially in the, in our context where we are in sales and marketing software right in the world of Salesforce and all those kinds of tools is like the re the idea that you need 50 to a hundred tools, which is not an exagger…”
David Cancel Sep 25, 2020 ▶ 21:17 Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Cancel: B2B shift to online sales channels will permanently persist post-COVID
“I think that behavior change won't go back. And so some of it will go back, but from an efficiency standpoint, it's too efficient and the incentives are set up for companies to continue to go that way.”
David Cancel Sep 25, 2020 ▶ 41:43 Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Cancel: Legacy CRM architectures like Salesforce were not built for real-time interactions
“And most systems, again, when we think about all those systems, whether you could put together all the sales forces you want and all the add ons and the 50 to a hundred tools that people put on top of those existing systems today, none of them were built for a…”
David Cancel Sep 25, 2020 ▶ 13:39 Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cancel: B2B sales control has shifted entirely from sellers to buyers
“We were moving from a world where the company controlled the buying process, largely in the B to B space to a world where the buyer had all, all the control.”
David Cancel Sep 25, 2020 ▶ 6:39 Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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Cancel: Drift was likely the first to deploy website sales qualification bots
“We feel like we were probably the first ones that really did that from a website standpoint, which is like the sales qualification bot, right?”
David Cancel Sep 25, 2020 ▶ 14:48 Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cancel: Peloton sells 40% to 50% of bikes through website messaging
“They sell, you know, somewhere like between 40 and 50% of their bikes over website messages.”
David Cancel Sep 25, 2020 ▶ 43:10 Fireside Chat: David Cancel (Founder & CEO, Drift) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
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