Bansal: COVID accelerated enterprise SaaS growth by enabling remote sales
Anjali Bansal · Investing Lessons from Anjali Bansal, Founder, Avaana Capital and The next Decade in VC · Nov 29, 2021 · at 29:21
Avaana Capital founder Anjali Bansal explains how pandemic-driven shifts to remote enterprise sales accelerated SaaS go-to-market speed.
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“COVID has actually helped because what required enterprise sales earlier required you to be there in person and meet people and because of COVID all sales have happened remotely and virtually. So I think it has actually helped to accelerate the growth of enterprise SaaS.”
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