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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google comes up
Metacorn: How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid Co-Founder/CEO Zach Perret
- ▶ 14:44 Zach Perret And from referrals from one developer to another, ah, honestly we have a lot of direct Google search saying,
7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft, and Calendly
- ▶ 16:55 David Cummings When you walked into the Pardot office, we had a huge, seventy-inch LED TV with a simple Google Sheet on it. 3 times in the scene
State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 7:31 Alex Ferrara Uh, and actually, uh, more recently, just in the last week, we saw Google acquire Looker for 2.6, and now Salesforce buying Tableau, so that trend is continued.
Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks
- ▶ 27:39 Julian Lemoine We did use, at the end, an hybrid solution, which is a mix of APIs plus custom code, and we used the GCP platform for that with PubSub, Dataflow, a lot of different products, but it took us close to a year to develop it.
How to Hire a Great VP of Sales with SaaStr + Duo Security
- ▶ 0:32 Jason Lemkin I think I, if you go to VP of sales on Google, you will see our content is like the whole first page, and this may be the, like, the only thing anybody ever cares about,
Going from $0 to $60M ARR in 4 Years with Podium CEO Eric Rea | SaaStr Software Community
Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith
- ▶ 6:52 Ashley Smith This just got updated last week, and so these are not the most recent slides, uh, or the most recent numbers, so go to the internet, open Google, type in OpenView, product-led growth index, and you'll see the updated values.
"5 Dos and Dont's Lessons From My Bootstrapping Days" Wrike Founder and CEO Andrew Filev
- ▶ 3:26 Andrew Filev I was not an ex-Stanford, ex-Googler kind of guy.
- ▶ 18:40 Andrew Filev So, uh, it's not about overpowering, and you definitely cannot overpower Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, Google, what have you, right?
"Early Gains, Early Pains: 5 Lessons for Surviving Hypergrowth" Harry Stebbings and Robert Vis
- ▶ 18:50 Robert Vis Which, necessarily, they don't want to be managers, but that's like a natural thing you see in every company sort of happening, and what we've done, uh, which is sort of taken away from what Spotify and Google and companies like that have…
5 Myths That Stop SaaS Companies From Moving Upmarket Dropbox's CCO Yamini Rangan (now CEO HubSpot)
- ▶ 27:01 Yamini Rangan We have customers like WeWork and NatGeo, National Geographic, where they use us specifically because we work so well with G Suite. 2 times in the scene
"Land, Expand, Explode: How to Win the Long-Game in SaaS" Egnyte Co-Founder Rajesh Ram
- ▶ 2:38 Rajesh Ram And you can see the list of a lot of our venture capital backers who have some common Silicon Valley names there, like Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures, and recently we raised a round from Goldman Sachs in September of last year to fuel…
"Aligning Sales, Marketing, and CS to Scale Revenue and Retention" Theresa O'Neil, Showpad CMO
- ▶ 8:23 Theresa O'Neil I can tell you all day long about my AdWord performance and my email performance, but if I ask you, what content at the bottom of the funnel is tied to Close One Revenue?
From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack
- ▶ 9:14 Danny Herzberg Whatever the keywords were, HubSpot showed up number one on Google with content answering that question.
Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
- ▶ 4:50 Pat Poels First off, there were companies who were later stage companies who had a lot deeper pockets, and it was very difficult for us to compete with a company like Google or a company like Facebook. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:07 Pat Poels We are the best place to work and it's known by everybody that advantage that Google used to have over us. 2 times in the scene
How to build a $18B+ success story far far away from Silicon Valley with Adyen
- ▶ 0:48 Aydin Senkut Um, and even, like, myself, like, I was the first product manager at Google, and even a company like Google, ah, they might have done things really well in the US, but the moment they started with international expansion, they realized… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:38 Aydin Senkut But then I found out that even companies like Google and Facebook were having challenges, 1015 years after their founding in certain countries in the world, dealing with complexity.
- ▶ 7:50 Aydin Senkut People haven't heard, and so my favorite anecdote, the first time the company was actually trying to raise its profile in the U.S., I call up Wall Street Journal, uh, whom I know really well from Google, and I'm like, well, I want to tell…
- ▶ 13:35 Aydin Senkut I experienced it with Google.
Lessons from Gorgias: How to Close your First 1000 Customers Based Solely on Data
- ▶ 4:55 Romain Lapeyre So in this case, like, uh, Google would be one, Sastre would be like 10,000, Gorgias would be a 100,000, hopefully, uh, less over time.
A Decade of Learnings from Y Combinator's CEO Michael Seibel
- ▶ 12:32 Michael Seibel Google's not great at hiring.
Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 - $1B in Under 2 Years
- ▶ 17:48 Henrique Dubugras Um, so, so we did podcasts, we did, like, all these things that started helping a lot, um, that is not the traditional thing, and the thing is, it was hard to, like, we put a lot of effort to measure the ROI,
The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics
- ▶ 5:21 Ryan Smith It's just how we rolled, and, you know, Jared, Jared started, this is in 2002, he's got the Antonio Banderas look going on there, and, ah, then he took off to Google, which was really weird. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:38 Ryan Smith Um, we had a goal to, to focus on 250 universities, and every time I'd call my brother when he was at Google, he'd be like, Ryan, you're all over the place.
From Burn-Out to $100M in ARR with Jason Cohen, Founder of WP Engine
- ▶ 10:23 Jason Cohen We say, ok, we gotta learn, we gotta do AdWords for sure. 2 times in the scene
Successfully Managing The Hyper-Growth Stage
- ▶ 14:55 Julio Avalos That there is a genuine sense of, like, we take it for granted that people here recognize that Google is a company that was made by human beings.