IBM
includes IBM Rational Software, IBM WebSphere
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 3, 2024 by Don Mal · said 32 times in 15 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2025 11 mentions in 8 episodes 1 per episode
- He burned $4M to hit $100K ARR—but with 1 big change, he grew to $4.5M ARR in just 12 months. | G... · PMF Show
- He built a $20B public company, left—then raised a $100M Series A. | Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of N... · PMF Show
- They failed every POC—then grew their cybersecurity platform to $100M ARR in 5 years. | Dean Sysm... · PMF Show
- She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge · PMF Show
- He Bootstrapped to $55M in Revenue—without ever having to hit 100% YoY growth. | Stéphan Donzé, F... · PMF Show
- He Bootstrapped Wrike to $10M ARR—then exited for $2.2B. | Andrew Filev, Founder of Wrike & Zencoder · PMF Show
- He went 7 years with no revenue— then grew to $100M ARR. | Rob Woollen, Co-Founder of Sigma · PMF Show
- It took him 7 years to hit $1M ARR—now his $1B public company does $1M every day. | Noah Glass, F... · PMF Show
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2024 19 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- They hit $100M ARR—in a "crowded market". Here's how they got to $1M ARR in just 18 months. | Don... · PMF Show
- His 1st startup failed—but his 2nd one hit $100M ARR & a $1.6B valuation. Here's what he learned.... · PMF Show
- He quit his cozy Google job & founded not 1 but 2 unicorns— then grew from $1M to $12M ARR in 2 y... · PMF Show
- He built a $4B unicorn & crossed $100M ARR—here's why it took 10 years of 100-hour weeks. | Marti... · PMF Show
- He refused to quit his job until $1M ARR—then grew to $5M ARR & closed a $25M Series A. | Pierce ... · PMF Show
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Everything said about IBM, oldest first
Sep 3, 2024 positive
Mal: IBM discontinued Clarity Systems' product after acquisition, opening market for Vena
“When IBM acquired the company where we worked, they discontinued the product that we then re-entered the market with our own approach, so we fill that void in a sense. Their product, the company that was sold to IBM, had an Excel look and feel capability withi…”
Oct 16, 2025
Startups must show rapid, low-effort value to eliminate enterprise buyer risk
“The thing that people don't understand, this is even truer, the bigger enterprise sales you go, the more this is true, is that companies have budgets, they have resources, and they will put those into buying products
But only if they can trust the outcome.
Thi…”
Mar 30, 2026 neutral
A scary high-overhead bug during early Netflix testing was IBM's fault.
“Where we were coming up with, like, pretty high overhead, and this was actually at Netflix, and it took us about, you know, maybe a couple of weeks to resolve it, and it actually turned out to be a JVM bug because they were using IBM's JVM versus Sun's JVM, an…”