Khadim Batti
21 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Apr 17, 2023 by Khadim Batti · said 13 times in 6 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
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Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023
Batti: Never give inflated senior titles at the early stage
“So I would say never over designate people at early stage. Give them the title, what is actually relevant for your organization at that point, and then let them grow over a period of time, unless you're very, very sure That this motion is for my company.”
Apr 17, 2023
Whatfix pays for external executive coaches for all director-level leaders
“So we push a lot, not only for us, for our CXOs, for VPs, even to directors, get advisors, get coach. So somebody who has been there, done that before, right? I can, if I'm a VP sales, get a couple of SVPs or CROs from large companies, let's say AppDynamics or…”
Apr 17, 2023
Batti: Half of Whatfix leadership is internally promoted, half lateral hires
“See, half of my leadership today is people who have grown internally, right? My VP of products or VP of demand gen or VP of sales. They've all been here for seven, eight years and they've grown along. Some places where some of these guys couldn't scale or some…”
Apr 17, 2023 bearish
Channel partnerships do not move the needle for early-stage SaaS startups
“Like we went channels pretty early when we were 2,000,001 half million dollars in revenue, but it doesn't move the needle very early on because it takes a lot of effort to even get entry into the channels and show them the value.”
Apr 17, 2023
Batti: Hire hustlers to define sales playbooks, then hire scalers
“For initial, when your playbook is not defined, you don't know what's working, what's not working, no need to have a clear boundaries and constraints, get hustlers, who will actually define that playbook. Once that playbook is defined, many of those hustlers w…”
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023
Apr 17, 2023 bullish
Events drive 25% of Whatfix's total revenue across 100 annual appearances
“Today we have around seven to eight people dedicated on events. We do close to a hundred events offline and online in a year, right? And it's already contributing 25% kind of 25% kind of revenue, and the deals what we make from events are pretty big, right?”
Apr 28, 2025
Batti: Whatfix instituted a mandatory five-day in-office policy years ago
“Probably we are one of the very, very few or one of the first SaaS companies to call all people back for five days office. We did like three years, two and a half, three years back, and I've been propagating because we believed it is not going to work. Every l…”
Apr 28, 2025
Apr 28, 2025
Batti: Whatfix pursued Vispi Daver for over a year to join
“So even for Wispy, I think I kept on pestering him for more than a year to join WhatFix. Like several times he said, no, I don't see this category. And he had several reservations. I kept going back to him every couple of months, Like, said, we'll figure it ou…”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Batti: Whatfix US leadership starts at 5:30 AM for India overlap
“And in us we pushed as much as possible people to start early, right? Like my CRO is in office at five-thirty AM. My co-founder Vara is in office at six-thirty AM. And we asked everybody to open up the calendar at seven AM. So at least we get solid four to fiv…”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Apr 28, 2025
Batti: Speed to first $1 million in revenue does not matter
“I think it doesn't matter my personal, that's my personal opinion, it doesn't matter how, how fast you get to first million, because you're figuring out the product market, right? You might have to do one pivot, two pivot, you need to find out the right segmen…”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Batti: Whatfix gives every executive a budget to hire veteran advisors
“So we gave budget to every leader that they can hire their advisors and mentors who've been there, done that in the industry, because Probably they're doing the right thing, but if they are doing for the first time, they need to bounce off that and just get th…”
Apr 28, 2025 positive
Batti: Reaching product-market fit is faster today due to design-partner availability
“So I feel getting those initial design partners have become much relatively much easier, or you have a bigger pool actually available today. So at least that PMF journey today can be faster. Doesn't matter whether your existing category or new category.”
Apr 28, 2025
Batti: Whatfix abolished corporate titles to end tenure-based promotion expectations
“We abolished designations. Because what happened, everybody was asking, I have spent two years in my position. I want to get promoted. Now spending two years in your position doesn't mean you need to get promoted. Promotion means you need to take more ownershi…”
Apr 28, 2025
Rayapati: Boards overestimate outside executive hires and underestimate internal talent
“I think we underestimate the talent that we have. We overestimate the talent that we want to bring. The board always thinks this people, this is the biggest job this person is doing. Tells the founder that go out and look at people. I think consistently I felt…”