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Makani: Motive shut down a new marketplace business at a $100M run-rate
“We started a new marketplace business. And it was very high potential. It fit our founding narrative. It was the right story. And it actually scaled pretty rapidly to north of a hundred million dollar run rate. In something like 18 months. But we realized actu…”
Shoaib Makani Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 11:37 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
Insight
Makani: Company culture means absolutely nothing without a winning product
“Are you building, if it's a technology company, are you building technology that solves a very real problem that people are willing to pay for over and over again? If you don't have that, nothing else matters. And so, I mean, you could have the most, most ethi…”
Shoaib Makani Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 38:52 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
Disclosure
Makani: The name KeepTruckin became a constraint on the business
“The company's name used to be Keep Truckin'. It was perfect at the time we started the company. It became a constraint pretty quickly thereafter and we knew we needed to change the name.”
Shoaib Makani Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 29:26 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
Insight
Makani: Corporate culture is mimetic because actions override words
“I mean, corporate culture is super mimetic. You know, the what you do is what other people will follow. No matter what you say, it's gonna be about what you do.”
Shoaib Makani Sep 14, 2022 ▶ 28:49 Live from Saastr Annual: Lunch with Notion, Motive, & Incredible Health
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