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Pardot grew to $13M ARR and sold for $100M without board meetings
“We raised zero dollars of venture capital. We sold the business for a hundred million dollars, and we had never held a single board meeting. So think about that. We sold Pardot. We had thirteen million of recurring revenue. Hundred percent year-over-year growt…”
Cummings: Pardot Needed Wholesale Leadership Overhaul to Scale Beyond $13M ARR
“Our senior talent wasn't going to be able to make the next leap to go from thirteen million of recurring to 20 to 50 and beyond. We knew that we were gonna have to do a wholesale change Of our senior team at time of sale.”
Cummings: Pardot sold at $13M revenue without a CFO
“Now, we sold the business at thirteen million of revenue. We had no CFO.”
Cummings: Pardot generated $250M in recognized revenue at Salesforce last year
“Today, six years later, Pardot, as part of salesforce.com, last calendar year, did two hundred and fifty million of recognized revenue.”
Porter: Salesloft was founded inside Pardot to solve its own workflow issues
“I actually founded sales loft in the Pardot offices, watching them do similar things and having a lot of those difficulties. So that was a lot of the inspiration”
Cummings: Pardot gave free house cleaning and in-house massages to all employees
“So at Pardot, we provided free house cleaning to all 100 plus employees.
So company administered house cleaning.
We took our central conference room, turned it into a spa, hired a masseuse on staff as a W-II employee.
We followed the results only work envir…”
Cummings: Pardot took and burned $3M from SVB with zero warrants
“Back then, we negotiated with Silicon Valley Bank that there were no warrants, so there was no dilution at all, and we got three million dollars from the bank, and at time of sale, we had burned all three million dollars.”
Cummings: Pardot Raised Monthly Pricing from $65 to $1,500
“At Pardot, we started our product, we charged 65 dollars a month, and then six months later we went to a 125 dollars a month, and then six months later we went to 325 dollars a month, six months later 500 dollars a month, then seven 50, then a thousand, then 1…”