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every year anyone Kiren Sekar 23Jason Lemkin 11Kieran Saker 7
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Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 4:19 Jason Lemkin You sold a networking company to Cisco called Meraki for one point something billion. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:14 Jason Lemkin But there were, and I think there might've even been a couple other folks on your senior team that were from Meraki, right? 3 times in the scene
5 Lessons from Scaling Six Products to $100M+ with Samsara's Chief Strategy Officer
- ▶ 5:10 Kieran Saker At both Meraki and Samsara, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:26 Kieran Saker Often people think about a binary choice between SMB and enterprise, and, ah, I think there's a really important third segment in the middle, which we call the mid-market, which has been a incredibly powerful element for growing and…
- ▶ 15:18 Kieran Saker We also wanted to make sure we were hearing directly from customers, and so we built feedback directly into the dashboard at Meraki, as well as Samsara. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:30 Kieran Saker As we saw in our timeline at the beginning, at both Samsara and Meraki, we had multiple products in the first couple of years that eventually ended up scaling to hundreds of millions, or in some cases, billions of dollars in sales.
3 Lessons from Building a Marketing Engine to Grow Pipeline from Millions to Billions | Samsara CMO
- ▶ 32:56 unnamed speaker Um, next question here is you mentioned both Samsara and Meraki were multi-product focus from an early stage.
Learnings from Innovating in Underserved Markets with Samsara CPO Kiren Sekar
- ▶ 5:24 Kiren Sekar Before we ask that question, I actually want to rewind the clock to before Samsara was founded into, uh, Meraki, our previous company, and some of the learnings from building Meraki that have influenced what we're doing here at Samsara. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:00 Kiren Sekar So, transitioning from Meraki to Samsara, Meraki was acquired by Cisco for 1.2 billion dollars in late 2012, and 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:32 Kiren Sekar Well, at Meraki, we had this really awesome experience of working with a wide variety of, uh, of, of businesses who were looking to deploy networks.
- ▶ 17:55 Kiren Sekar I think these are things that we really kind of did, ah, intuitively at Meraki, and we felt our way through it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:44 Kiren Sekar So I want to take plenty of time for questions, but again, to recap, some of the main takeaways that I've had reflecting on both Meraki and Samsara, one is that these customer feedback loops, being very systematic and disciplined about… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:27 Kiren Sekar So, you know, for, for both, um, Meraki and, and Samsara, these were businesses where, uh, the hardware and the software were 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:09 Kiren Sekar Meraki was a channel sales company. 2 times in the scene