Europe

10 statements across 8 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Aug 14, 2019 by Robert Vis · said 180 times in 75 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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Aug 14, 2019 neutral
Opinion
Robert Vis: European investors prioritize traction while US investors prioritize ideas
“Traction is more attractive in Europe, where in the US people are more about ideas.”
Robert Vis Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 8:59 "Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth" Harry Stebbings and Robert Vis
Aug 14, 2019
Insight
Robert Vis: European startups must think globally to compete with US companies
“You know, I think that's one of the things that Europe has to sort of get over, like, think big, go global you know, think outside of your country to really start winning, because, you know, that's the advantage that the U.S. Has, that, you know, one state to …”
Robert Vis Aug 14, 2019 ▶ 5:52 "Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth" Harry Stebbings and Robert Vis
Jul 26, 2022
Assertion Supported
Zocchetto: PayFit scaled to 1,000 staff and over 7,000 customers across Europe
“We grew very fast in the past seven years, so we went from three founders to a thousand payfitters. We are now serving thousands of customers, so more than 7000 customers, all over Europe, in France, in Spain, in Germany, and in UK”
Firmin Zocchetto Jul 26, 2022 ▶ 3:38 7 Secrets to a Successful SMB GTM Strategy with PayFit and Accel | SaaStr Software Community
Aug 9, 2022 positive
Disclosure
Husid: Miro Is Actively Pursuing European Product Engineering M&A
“And we started to do M&As. And of course our core focus on M&As is in Europe today. Because as I said, like product engineering is, is here and all our M&As are focused on, on product engineering. And we did a couple already. Like we closed one last year. We c…”
Andrey Husid Aug 9, 2022 ▶ 27:29 Finding Opps in Every Challenge: From Humble Beginnings to 30 Million Users with Miro CEO
Aug 9, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Husid: Miro is the largest European productivity collaboration company ever
“We've built the kind of biggest productivity collaboration company out of Europe, Ever.”
Andrey Husid Aug 9, 2022 ▶ 26:46 Finding Opps in Every Challenge: From Humble Beginnings to 30 Million Users with Miro CEO
Sep 6, 2022
Insight
Wright: International expansion forces SaaS startups to redefine their ICP
“This problem kind of comes out again as you're trying to go maybe international. I certainly had this happen when I was launching a team in Europe, and had a repeatable process in the U.S., but suddenly our ICP was slightly different, and I had to redefine tha…”
Lauren Wright Sep 6, 2022 ▶ 13:20 Navigating the Rocky Road from Founder-Led Sales to The First Dozen Sales Professionals | Demodesk
Sep 13, 2022 positive
Insight
De la Nuez: European founders are more resourceful due to scarcer capital
“I think that if we're going to have more EU Based unicorns and references, we have to be bold, we have to think big, and by the way, I think we are much more resourceful in general. I feel like we're much more resourceful, again, because we have less access to…”
Alfonso de la Nuez Sep 13, 2022 ▶ 35:35 10 Lessons Learned Along the Path to $100M ARR | UserZoom's CEO and CMO | SaaStr Software Community
Sep 15, 2022 bearish
Insight
Briggs: European regional leaders often get steamrolled by global winners
“And what we have seen in Europe quite a bit is companies that became, you know, regional winners, But then the global winner came in at some point and kind of steamrolled, not completely, but, you know, eroded their market and stopped them from growing.”
Harry Briggs Sep 15, 2022 ▶ 27:20 Successful Scaling Across Markets, From a Founder Turned VC | OMERS Ventures MP Harry Briggs
Aug 30, 2024 negative
Opinion
Stebbings: Europe Has Many Dangerous VCs Who Know Nothing Yet Interfere
“And then there are the really dangerous investors who think they know everything but actually know nothing and want to do a lot. Big cross. Worst of the worst. Europe has a lot of them, sadly.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 30, 2024 ▶ 17:54 Navigating Fundraising and the VC Landscape Today with 20VC and Visionaries Club
Nov 12, 2024
Assertion Supported
Over 30M commercial vehicles operate in the US, 60M in Europe
“There's 30 something million in the U.S. Even more, like there's twelve million in Mexico. There's even more in Europe, like sixty million.”
Sanjit Biswas Nov 12, 2024 ▶ 9:49 Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara's CEO and Co-Founder
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