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Scaling for the Enterprise: Top 5 Lessons on the Upmarket Journey with @AirtableApp CEO Howie Liu
- ▶ 7:23 Howie Liu Or even, um, you know, Google sheets and Excel, you know, spreadsheets, but it was our very, very intentional,
- ▶ 26:56 Howie Liu Um, you could just type in, you know, um, you know, text or numbers into any cell, you can create a formula, et cetera, but then we've all probably experienced like the really messy, overgrown, you know, uh, sheet and, and Sheets and Excel…
Increasing Runway Without Sacrificing Growth with Norwest Venture Partners and Andreessen Horowitz
- ▶ 4:18 Christina Shen And apologies for my bad PowerPoint scribbling, but like, you know, pre-everything category, if you don't have revenue, it's, it's an asymptote infinity, right?
CRO Confidential: Sales Comp, Quotas & Recruiting with Jason Lemkin and Sam Blond of Founders Fund
- ▶ 3:51 Jason Lemkin There were no direct costs, but like literally the old Adobe's and Microsoft's had 90% margins.
CEO Systems: 5 Lessons Learned from Scaling at Every Growth Phase with HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet
- ▶ 1:39 Dave McJannet I spent a good amount of time at Microsoft earlier in my career. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:31 Dave McJannet And this is obviously we all understand, but if you hire someone from Microsoft and say, come and
- ▶ 17:25 Dave McJannet I mean, I'm going to put in an Excel spreadsheet that says we're going to build X dollars in new, X in expansion, X in renewals,
- ▶ 27:54 Dave McJannet Why don't you ever invest in Microsoft?
- ▶ 31:00 Dave McJannet This actually comes from Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee
- ▶ 31:44 Aileen Lee So, basically, I was fortunate to start my first job after college was I was an analyst at Morgan Stanley in mergers and acquisitions, and so you're basically like a model jockey, and you learn how to use Excel really well, and so,…
Scaling From $10M-$100M ARR: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly with Showpad Co-Founder Pieterjan Bouten
- ▶ 18:34 Pieterjan Bouten So imagine most sales teams, especially 10 years ago, they would just have PDFs, PowerPoints, and videos.
The Answers To Scaling, Hiring, And Everything Else: An AMA With Saastr Founder & Ceo Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 13:52 Jason Lemkin AWS, Azure, like, I forget, I'm gonna get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS, I think Azure's like 7000 Google, um, and so, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:17 Jason Lemkin Microsoft, LinkedIn, where they have folks that have lived in the Bay Area for 20 years and did not leave, they can force, they can try to force them to go back to the office, right?
- ▶ 54:41 Jason Lemkin They will bring reps that still use Windows devices.
Why Choosing Your First Customers Matters More Than You Think | Pigment Co-Founder Eléonore Crespo
- ▶ 0:15 Eléonore Crespo We are replacing Excel.
- ▶ 2:48 Eléonore Crespo To be very clear on what we do, we actually replace Excel for fast growing companies. 2 times in the scene
SaaS Secret Sauce: How the CEO/CRO Dynamic Drives Growth | Marketo’s Former EVP Sales Bill Binch
- ▶ 23:18 Bill Binch You go close the deal in Microsoft or in Santander Bank or something like that, and you close in a division, and you're super excited because it took you six months, you landed the division, and now your sales team goes back to the…
The Metrics that Matter, Whether You Are Raising $1m or $100m | Index Ventures Partner Molly Alter
- ▶ 29:33 Molly Alter Um, but there are also some really good, ah, Excel templates that you can find online if you're looking for something a little bit lower cost, um, especially for, like, bringing your raw MRR data into a more readable format. 2 times in the scene
10 Mistakes the CEO/Founder of ZoomInfo Made on His Journey to IPO (and Beyond)
- ▶ 21:43 Jason Lemkin And so many people get tempted to take their technology and move it into a different vertical or a different buyer because it, on a, on a PowerPoint, it looks very logical, right?
Top 5 Mistakes Building & Scaling Global Product Teams | HubSpot GM & VP, Products Poorvi Shrivastav
- ▶ 0:25 Poorvi Shrivastav Prior to HubSpot, I have run product engineering and operations at Salesforce, Microsoft, and my own startup.
- ▶ 11:03 Poorvi Shrivastav So when I was at Salesforce, and even at Microsoft, I interviewed a lot of candidates from undergrad and MBAs coming into structured programs,
Learnings from Innovating in Underserved Markets with Samsara CPO Kiren Sekar
- ▶ 19:08 Kiren Sekar You can see here a screenshot of a Windows system that they were using to pull temperature data from the refrigerators and said, hey, we could make something that's modern, that's elegant.
Product-Led Growth: Panacea or Boondoggle? | AgentSync Co-Founder/CTO + OpenPhone Co-founder
- ▶ 20:41 Daryna Kulya I think that when you're picking your go-to-market motion, you have to think about, ah, the space you're in, ah, how busy it is, ah, the alternatives that your customers, ah, can go to, whether it's alternatives like direct competitors or…
How Hybrid is Working in Practice: What the Data Shows | Raise Comm. Real Estate CEO + President
- ▶ 4:28 unnamed speaker Some of the largest companies in the world like Facebook and Microsoft and Twitter employing, uh, this strategy.
- ▶ 5:06 Justin Betakure Microsoft just did a study of 60,000 of their employees, and what they found was, while some productivity maintained, silos were created around teams in which they didn't collaborate, and so, you know, people were on islands during these… 2 times in the scene
The Path to a Billion Dollars: How to Create Multi-Revenue Streams with Bill.com CRO Tom Clayton
- ▶ 12:52 Tom Clayton In our space, you got the NetSuites, the Intax, Microsoft has done it for the last 30 plus years, and so Adobe's done it, so
The Office is Back!! But What Will It Be Like? Jason Lemkin & Justin Bedecarre of Raise.Work
- ▶ 22:08 Justin Bedecarre Um, we, uh, our data shows 18.4 million square feet of leases by big tech, Amazon, you know, um, uh, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Microsoft, et cetera.
The Secrets to Scaling a Public Company with a 75% Freelancer Workforce with Upwork CEO Hayden Brown
- ▶ 5:51 Hayden Brown Everyone from Microsoft to Airbnb to our own company at Upwork.
A CEO's Guide to Marketing with Dave Kellogg | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 16:43 Dave Kellogg In the end, I stuck with Excel.
Reaccelerating Growth at Scale with Box's CRO Mark Wayland and SaaStr CEO and Founder, Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 6:24 Jason Lemkin Like if we made a decision to move to box from on-prem or SharePoint or Reason for some, some of those decisions are still being implemented now.
- ▶ 9:52 Mark Wayland And so if you think about the number one and the number two cloud investments at the app layer, not the infrastructure layer that organizations are making at Microsoft and Salesforce.
- ▶ 44:47 Mark Wayland You know, almost every enterprise on earth is doing a major Microsoft O, three 65 project and a major Salesforce project. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:47 Mark Wayland You know, almost every enterprise on earth is doing a major Microsoft O, three 65 project and a major Salesforce project. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:37 Mark Wayland And so what customers are finding today is that they've got a little bit of a rat's nest from a content standpoint with these two clouds, because they've got the OneDrive SharePoint, um, you have the OneDrive SharePoint world in Microsoft…