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Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
- ▶ 40:54 Jason Lemkin Like if you like it at TBPN or Yahoo or Cisco, my advice is stay.
The 2025 SaaS Vibe Check: What Founders Need to Know Right Now with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 5:05 Jason Lemkin And Harvey today, Cisco, Sequoia putting three hundred million into Harvey for legal, Harvey A, that's three hundred million.
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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 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
What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk
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.
Building a Global SaaS Empire | Freshworks Founder & CEO Girish Mathrubootham on His Biggest Bets
- ▶ 21:39 Girish Mathrubootham Uh, I think this was 2015 or 16 where we did a PR saying, Hey, we announced Cisco as the 30,000 customer, but you have to understand inbound. 4 times in the scene
Why You're Unfundable Today: The Cold, Hard Truths About SaaS Part 2 with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 44:17 Jason Lemkin I remember I asked Doug Song, who founded Duo Security, which Cisco bought for a couple billion.
Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta: My Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years (LIVE SaaStr Workshop Wednesday)
- ▶ 28:45 Jason Lemkin Sure, you're going to do a custom deal for, for, for SAP or Cisco, great, right? 2 times in the scene
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.
How Top CMOs Drive Growth in the Age of the Self-Serve Buyer | Klaviyo, Talkdesk, SmartBear CMOs
- ▶ 37:24 Vinay Bhagat Cisco is one of the brands that we work with, and they data mine all of their reviews to understand the patterns of what people are saying about their products to make adjustments.
Learnings from Innovating in Underserved Markets with Samsara CPO Kiren Sekar
- ▶ 0:29 Kiren Sekar We'll start with a brief company overview for those of you who are less familiar with, uh, Samsara and what we do, and then actually rewind the clock, uh, talk a bit about our previous company Meraki, uh, how our experience growing and…
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 10:18 Kiren Sekar As part of Cisco Systems, they had actually grown to a million networks, and then in 20 months doubled again to two million.
- ▶ 11:00 Kiren Sekar So, transitioning from Meraki to Samsara, Meraki was acquired by Cisco for 1.2 billion dollars in late 2012, and 2 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
Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
- ▶ 1:37 Sandhya Hegde You know, if you go back to 2017, um, you know, AppDynamics was acquired by Cisco.
How to Hire a Great First VP of Sales
- ▶ 43:19 Jason Lemkin I call it the WebEx model. 3 times in the scene
7 Key Tips & Tricks to Getting More Revenue per AE with Salesloft, Zoom and Fireeye
- ▶ 1:42 Kyle Porter Having spent time at, ah, is it Cisco?
Lessons from Logikcull: $0 to $10M in 19 Months: The How, When & Why + 10 Mistakes Along the Way
- ▶ 31:09 Andy Wilson I had dinner once with John Chambers at Cisco and I asked him like, why didn't you buy this company?
Founder Confidential: The Top Things No One Really Tells You About Scaling
Going Upmarket, How To Keep Growing When Your Buyer Is No Longer Your User
- ▶ 5:39 Darrell Benatar Pay as you go customers called us up, and it was, you know, Martin Hardy from Cisco, and he, you know, was responsible for some consumer website that Cisco had, and he said, hey, I got, ah, 25,000 dollars left in my budget. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:25 Vas Natarajan You had just gotten a call from Cisco.
The Road to Building a 100 Year Company
- ▶ 17:48 Sanjay Beri They're not the people who work at Cisco, any of those companies now.