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Delatorre: Former Oracle salespeople performed poorly at MongoDB
“So at MongoDB, the sales team Oracle people did really poorly for the most part.”
Lemkin: AI is shrinking software competitive advantages from years to months
“It's not that we're going to rebuild workday in Salesforce and Oracle, but our competitive edges are going to be measured in months. And when they used to be years and that compounds that compounds. And if you can't run at that pace, I don't see how you're goi…”
Legacy CRM competitors cannot offer freemium due to software complexity
“Like if one of those companies wanted to do freemium, it would fall down on itself because it's hard to stand that darn thing up. It's really hard to use really hard to set up.”
Roberge: Why Big-Company Sales Reps Fail Under Technical Founders
“When you're two engineering-based founders bringing in that first salesperson, geez, that guy showed up at Oracle or Salesforce or wherever it was. He went through a month of training how to handle the top 20 objections. That process is not built. And if you d…”
Levie: Mature SaaS companies must shift to teen growth and 30%+ margins
“I think we look. Like probably what most companies are gonna have to look like at some point, which is you're probably growing teens. You're probably generating 30 plus percent operating margin. This is sort of the historical norm for software companies, and y…”
Lemkin: Sales VPs from giants like Salesforce do not work at startups
“We know that the Oracle VP doesn't work. Salesforce is the same as Oracle today, right?”
Halligan: Enterprise SaaS incumbents demonstrate exceptional durability over decades
“These SaaS companies They last. You look at Adobe and Salesforce, both were, I don't know, I haven't looked recently, but three, I call it three or fifty billion. Oracle, you gotta take your hat off to them. It was like, oh, they're gonna die. They're gonna sl…”
Holm: Enterprise software is inelastic, so vendors must set high initial prices
“In enterprise sales or enterprise software, it's not super elastic. That's the bottom line. Splunk may be one of the more elastic enterprise products than others, but you're not going to wake up one more, one day and say, oh, let's buy a bunch of Oracle today.…”
Oracle's Employee Expense Reporting System Is Probably Unpleasant
“If I were to envision what the employee experience is like at something like Oracle, I can imagine what their you know, employee expense reporting system is. It's probably not pleasant.”
Mickos: Enterprise buyers fear abandoning overpriced products they hate
“Business people are afraid of abandoning even a product they hate that's overpriced.”
Butterfield: Slack scaled its Oracle rollout to 100,000 employees in 15 months
“Oracle had through acquisitions maybe a thousand or 2000 people using Slack, and in 15 months we took it to a 100,000 people wall to wall.”
Tejada: Traditional Enterprise Sales Failed For PagerDuty's Developer-First Audience
“If we tried to bring in kind of the Oracle, Splunk, elephant hunting motion, it didn't work for the way our users who tended to be developers wanted to engage with our product, and so we really had to build our own model, and it was a lot of experiments.”
Schultz: Big tech enterprise hires must be filtered for builder mindset
“We tend to want to go hire people who are experienced and strategic in the enterprise and maybe hire a lot of folks out of big tech companies. And that is the right move to make, but you also have to apply a filter to that talent to make sure that those experi…”
Dietrich: Larry Ellison's strict ad consistency rules drove Oracle's brand awareness
“Larry Ellison had to approve every ad, and sometimes we would complain that it was so boring, because A, it was the same ad format with that red bar, and two, we would keep the same message for what I thought was an inordinate amount of time. But it turned out…”