COVID

8 statements across 8 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Mar 14, 2021 by Byron Deeter · across every show →

Everything said about COVID, oldest first

Mar 14, 2021 bullish
Assertion Supported
Deeter: Telehealth visits experienced a 300x increase during COVID-19
“This is an example of telehealth that has skyrocketed given the cloud And COVID combination, a 300 X increase in telehealth visits.”
Byron Deeter Mar 14, 2021 ▶ 6:15 The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
Feb 10, 2022 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Eifrem: Multiple countries and US states used Neo4j for COVID contact tracing
“So a ton of people will have ton of countries, as well as companies, as well as states in the US and things like that. Have used Neo for J to do contact tracing of COVID”
Emil Eifrem Feb 10, 2022 ▶ 38:15 Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
Oct 18, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Halligan: HubSpot's $50 COVID starter bundle drove massive customer influx
“The first week of COVID, we have, we had a starter edition. It was kind of expensive. And then we said, you could now buy, it was maybe 253 hundred bucks. I can't remember. But we said, we're going to lower the price. If you buy the whole suite, sales, marketi…”
Brian Halligan Oct 18, 2022 ▶ 23:09 The Secrets to Scaling with HubSpot's Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan and SaaStr's CEO
Mar 21, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Lenta: Databricks pivoted to a consumption pricing model during COVID-19
“And then at the beginning of COVID, we decided to change the whole company. We said we're not going to value that anymore. We want to be more customer obsessed. And so we pivoted the entire company to a consumption model.”
Ed Lenta Mar 21, 2023 ▶ 8:49 Lessons Learned in Scaling Early-Stage to Hyper-Growth Companies: From VMware, AWS and Databricks
Jun 30, 2023 neutral
Assertion Supported
Magnuson: E-Commerce Has Returned to Pre-Pandemic Growth Path
“Ecom pulled forward tremendously, and now it's revisited its prior growth path almost exactly.”
Bill Magnuson Jun 30, 2023 ▶ 11:54 From Uncertainty to +$400M: How Braze Found Opportunity in Headwinds with Braze Co-Founder & CEO
Jan 26, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mullenweg: Automattic Hired 1,200 Remote Workers During COVID and Productivity Suffered
“Our culture suffered. Like we were not as productive during COVID. People thought, oh, this must be, I had other CEOs. This must be great. You just, you're, you must be running at full speed. I'm like, no, I hired 1200 people the past year that have, the past …”
Matt Mullenweg Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 26:37 What's New at WordPress with Matt Mullenweg, CEO of Automattic and Co-Founder of WordPress
Sep 6, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lang: Post-COVID spa front-desk wages jumped to $20-$23 per hour
“Where those like front desk workers you know, you think about a spa with 10, 15 providers, they would normally have three, four providers that is before COVID and each of them get paid like 13, 14 bucks an hour. Now that same business has to make it work with …”
Daniel Laniado (Daniel Lang) Sep 6, 2024 ▶ 23:43 Why Vertical SaaS is Booming, And How to Get 110% NRR from SMBs, with Jason Lemkin + Mangomint's CEO
Feb 15, 2026 negative
Disclosure
Lemkin: SaaStr lost $10 million during COVID conference disruptions
“We lost ten million in COVID. We lost, I lost ten million as the majority shareholder. I lost ten million dollars.”
Jason Lemkin Feb 15, 2026 ▶ 3:26 Software Stocks Have Massively Crashed. Here's What Founders Need to Know.
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