Salesforce

“Like, once these platforms reach a critical mass, somebody's gonna build something that's frictionless on top of it that is able to generate revenue. So I think there's money to be made in the unconventional app platforms that you don't really think about firs…”

“Ripping and replacing software is so painful, and it's incredibly hard to get people to do it. You've already trained your team on it. It has all of your information and data sitting in that system. It's just really hard to rip something out when it's there, w…”

“There's two hundred million dollars of real estate impairments in the past year since COVID. It's almost a billion if you add in the lease related write downs from large companies like Salesforce, Dropbox, Uber, PayPal, Zendesk, just getting rid of their real …”

“If you're, if you are non-technical and you've never started a startup before, I would say don't build a SaaS app. It's too hard. Like go, I have this thing called the stair-step approach to bootstrapping, which is like start small with like a WordPress plugin…”

“Like, if you go to sell a SaaS company and you're solely built on top of a platform, you sell for a lower multiple than if you were on your own.”

“I also think that companies would pay for this, right? As in like, Companies that have competitors want to know what their competitors are doing, and so, like, we're launching something at HubSpot soon, and I've already gotten an email from someone who works a…”

“So right now, like we're making a decision and we're going to go with some Other smaller couple. We're not going with Salesforce. We're going with this other one. They're going to get out, you know, 10 grand a month or whatever. Because they're specifically fo…”

“I literally emailed, like, mark at salesforce, mark.benioff, mbenioff you know, like, every permutation I could come up with, and most of them bounced, and one of them worked, so.”

“The vast majority of value creation is going to be by big companies just getting bigger. I just think that it's much easier for Salesforce to get more efficient and launch new features than it is a new company, or at least picking those new companies very hard…”