IBM, every mention
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every year anyone Jason Lemkin 18Aaron Levie 9Sanjit Biswas 4Alex Ferrara 3Ajay Agarwal 3Tom Hale 2Karen Peacock 2Doug Pepper 2Dan Siroker 2Byron Deeter 2
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where IBM comes up
Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 34:33 Brett Queener It turns into an IBM sales process where there's seven people involved in a deal and they can't figure out their magic number and the rest of it.
What’s Working Now: AI’s Real Impact on Sales with SaaStr's CEO and Co-Founder, and SVP & GM
- ▶ 15:12 Amelia LeRutte Each tool kind of have its own way where you can say, okay, make an artifact and say, okay, um, hey, by the way, IBM was a sponsor this year.
Why Enterprise AI Adoption Is Moving 5-10X Faster Than Cloud with Box 's Aaron Levie and IBM's VP AI
- ▶ 0:25 Aaron Levie And I mean, IBM has sort of proven just like what that takes over, over, you know, obviously decades.
- ▶ 4:23 Aaron Levie We have a great partnership with IBM, with Watson X, where we are bringing model choice to our customers, powering things like the latest, uh, Lama models, integrating with things like orchestrate.
- ▶ 4:23 Aaron Levie We have a great partnership with IBM, with Watson X, where we are bringing model choice to our customers, powering things like the latest, uh, Lama models, integrating with things like orchestrate.
- ▶ 4:23 Aaron Levie We have a great partnership with IBM, with Watson X, where we are bringing model choice to our customers, powering things like the latest, uh, Lama models, integrating with things like orchestrate.
- ▶ 7:39 Jason Lemkin Raj at IPM, do real world customers, do they want agents? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:17 Jason Lemkin You've got this IBM Salesforce, which is legions in size, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:22 Jason Lemkin IBM has an incredible depth of customer relationships that people don't even get ever. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:40 Jason Lemkin Because maybe there's some, a few parts of IBM, not Watson, but a few parts that maybe are a little, a little older, but if the AI is great, if the agents, if I can walk in with the box agent, you can tell me what it's like.
- ▶ 32:44 Aaron Levie And I mean, IBM has sort of proven just like what that takes over, over, you know, obviously decades.
- ▶ 34:23 Jason Lemkin So, uh, we had, we had a, we had like a kickoff party that IBM sponsored on Monday night before we started.
SaaS + AI: It’s Time to Move Much Faster with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 6:10 Jason Lemkin He'll be here with the head of AI from IBM.
Samsara’s Rise to Vertical SaaS Leader and $1B+ ARR with Samsara's CEO and Co-Founder
- ▶ 2:47 Sanjit Biswas I literally saw an IBM AS 400 green screen system that they're still using to type in orders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:47 Sanjit Biswas I literally saw an IBM AS 400 green screen system that they're still using to type in orders.
- ▶ 15:33 Sanjit Biswas Otherwise you become that IBM mainframe.
The Ultimate Attendee Guide to SaaStr Annual 2024
- ▶ 46:33 unnamed speaker Um, some places like the Speakeasy that IBM is sponsoring has, like, specialty cocktails, or like the Airstream that Rekiva has, has, like, slushies.
Forget the SaaS Gloom and Doom. Just Build. with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 23:39 Jason Lemkin IBM just bought them for six billion, which is insane, but it might not be enough for a big fund to make any money, right?
2025 State of SaaS: Trends and Predictions with SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 17:11 Jason Lemkin IBM this week announced, I think, their best quarter is IBM. 3 times in the scene
CRO Confidential: Sales Recruitment and Hiring Managers With Ben Braverman
- ▶ 6:33 Ben Braverman They were all running on some version of Windows 95 or AS 400 mainframe.
Accel, Iconiq & Salesforce Ventures: "Where Venture Is Right Now: Gritty & Much Harder" at G2 Reach
- ▶ 17:19 Doug Pepper Uh, they're kind of like IBM was back in the eighties. 2 times in the scene
The Secrets to Scaling with HubSpot's Founders Dharmesh Shah and Brian Halligan and SaaStr's CEO
- ▶ 4:34 Brian Halligan Everyone said, big blues in the way.
Why Choosing Your First Customers Matters More Than You Think | Pigment Co-Founder Eléonore Crespo
- ▶ 4:41 Eléonore Crespo No one got fired for buying IBM.
Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Company from Scratch with Neo4j CEO & Co-Founder Emil Eifrem
- ▶ 2:46 Emil Eifrem And then traditional, you know, massive companies, you know, all the way from the IBMs to the Accentures of the world, trying to figure out, you know, their play, so to speak.
$100 Million ARR Pivot: From Platform Product to Vertical Apps With Treasure Data CEO Kazuki Ohta
- ▶ 2:14 Kazuki Ohta I was a visiting researcher at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, and they have a supercomputer called BlueJean, which combines almost a half million compute nodes into one and create one of the world's largest and fastest…
The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 18:25 Byron Deeter 35 X revenue multiple paid for what is a fantastic business by one of the leaders of cloud with Salesforce, um, really showing that, uh, this was the second largest enterprise software acquisition in history after only IBM's purchase a red…
State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 7:00 Alex Ferrara So, Red Hat, one of the largest M&A deals in the cloud space last year, acquired by IBM, 3 times in the scene
From Freemium to Enterprise with Slack
- ▶ 26:12 Kevin Egan Um, so today we have, we count IBM as our largest customer with close to a 130,000 daily active users.
Lessons from New Relic: Five Critical Steps to Scaling Enterprise
- ▶ 15:16 Erica Schultz He said, but we still have, we have Informix databases, and he went, he went down this long list of legacy technology that was in his environment.
State of the Cloud 2019 from Bessemer Venture Partners
- ▶ 6:59 Byron Deeter Because IBM was jammed, they were late to the cloud party, and hybrid cloud is their attempt to be relevant again in the cloud universe.
Scaling from $1MM to $500MM ARR: 5 Strategies to Drive Your Next Wave of Growth with Intercom
- ▶ 3:15 Karen Peacock At Intercom, we had the opportunity to work with IBM. 2 times in the scene
Insider's Guide To Building Great Product w/Merci Grace, Slack's First Head of Product
- ▶ 24:42 Merci Grace Those are two different users, and people who work at Slack have very little experience usually, um, even being the type of person who works at something like IBM or Comcast, you know, very similar job, but the, uh, the network effects and…
SurveyMonkey's Secrets to Keeping Customers Happy for 20 Years
How to Build Happier Employees - Founder & CTO and Chief People Officer at HubSpot
- ▶ 23:03 Katie Burke I think it's the right push because candidly, I think the generation before us, you know, you built your career at IBM.
Busting the Myths About Startup Success with Blackline's Founder-CEO
- ▶ 6:29 Therese Tucker I mean, when you have, when you start a company, do you ever ask yourself, why didn't IBM or Google or Oracle do this?
How the Relationship Changes Between CEO and VP Sales After Funding
- ▶ 22:49 Russ Fraden Because I want to know what's going on with IBM.
How to Break Out and Really Scale
- ▶ 3:01 Ajay Agarwal How did you think about the fact that, you know, in this space, you had this giant competitor called Adobe, you had IBM in the space, Google had a free product of some kind, and as a founder, why that space? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:46 Dan Siroker This is the whole team at large enterprises like IBM who can adopt this and, and really transform their business into being much more data driven.
- ▶ 30:41 Dan Siroker I didn't think deeply and empathetically for the companies like IBM for whom we are essential.
Aaron Levie (Box): The First $250m in ARR
- ▶ 12:11 Aaron Levie Um, you had these meetings where literally, like, the, the, the person that we were pitching was, was like, an investor in IBM and EMC, and they're like, well, where's the cash flow? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:56 Aaron Levie Like, like, you know, IBM's got that for us. 2 times in the scene