Jyoti Bansal

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Apr 29, 2021
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Bansal: $0-$1M ARR is product-market fit; $1M-$10M ARR is product-market-sales fit
“Your zero to one is a product market fit phase and you know, one to ten million dollars is product market sales fit phase.”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 42:17 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021 neutral
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Bansal: B2B startups take 12 to 18 months to find product-market fit
“If you have to go through a journey, like, you know, like a startup journey, like in the B to B kind of space, like, you know, you start You start with an idea. It takes like, you know, somewhere in the 12 to 18 months to find your initial product market fit,…”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 25:47 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021 neutral
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Bansal: 20 VCs rejected AppDynamics before its initial funding
“I pitched about 20 VCs, you know, who rejected me before I got any funding for Abdanos.”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 6:43 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021
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Bansal: Sales transitions from 80% hustle at $1M ARR to 90% machine at $25M+
“Getting to the first million of revenue, I would say is about 80% hustle and maybe 20% machine and process in there. Getting from a, you know, let's say a million to ten million dollars of revenue will be part maybe, you know 60% hustle and 40% machine. When y…”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 41:04 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021 positive
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Bansal: Board management dropped from 20-30% of time to 1-2% at Harness
“I spent a lot of time managing our board and industries. Like maybe about 20 to 30% of my time would go in there. We had, you know, All sorts of investors who needed just a lot of management. Doing it second time at Harness, it's much easier. I spend maybe one…”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 8:01 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021 negative
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Bansal: Second-time founders cannot just rehire former stars for early startups
“Most of those people, you know, it's great that they've been now, you know, significantly you know, grown in their careers and where they are in their journeys and work. So for them to come into a very early startup, you know, many times doesn't make sense. Li…”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 14:46 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021 neutral
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Bansal: The decacorn is the new unicorn benchmark
“The Decacorn is the new unicorn now, like, you know, right now billion dollar was a special part. And now it's like, you know, it's, you gotta be ten billion dollars to be really special over the company these days.”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 32:59 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021
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Bansal: Startups must replace sales staff unable to shift from hustle to machine
“During all of those phases, you know, if you don't have the right people who can transition from that, you know, 90% hustle to 90% machine, then you may have to change people as well, right?”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 42:51 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
Apr 29, 2021 neutral
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Bansal: Finding product-market fit is just as hard for second-time founders
“The finding the product market fit is still the same iterative process. Like, you know, we had to pivot at harness as well. We have to do like, you know, some of the assumptions were wrong and you have to pivot and correct goals and, you know, iterate through …”
Jyoti Bansal Apr 29, 2021 ▶ 13:33 Building a Second Unicorn: A Deep Dive with Harness and AppDynamics Founder Jyoti Bansal
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