Bessemer Venture Partners
4 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 23, 2022 by Divyanshu Makkar · said 22 times in 3 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Aug 23, 2022 positive
Unsexy markets allow founders to build without chasing vanity metrics
“Those businesses are very, very strong business fundamentals, you know, not very, a lot of people are competing in those spaces, and it gives you a lot of time to build something of value to your customers. You're not always chasing numbers. You're rather like…”
Aug 23, 2022
Vertical SaaS founders must assume pitching VCs have zero domain knowledge
“Like a person like me sitting there at Bessemer, I personally cannot know hundred industries. I cannot associate with a hundred problems. So you have to go in knowing that this guy doesn't understand it. And it's okay for him to not understand it or her unders…”
Aug 23, 2022 neutral
Makkar: Bessemer evaluates vertical SaaS entirely on metrics, not domain expertise
“And at Bessemer, at least we were very, very metric driven. And I think we published like a good, better, best of SaaS, global SaaS out there. So pretty much that's how I'm going to evaluate. So there were companies in oil and gas. I have no idea about oil and…”
Aug 23, 2022
Makkar: VCs evaluate new startups by pattern-matching against portfolio baggage
“Every VC has baggage. Like, they will try to connect you to some portfolio company that they have seen and that has nothing to do with you. That has nothing to do with what you are building. But you know, that's, it's a complex, like, you know, as a VC also, y…”