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Box CRO: Microsoft and Salesforce will win enterprise SaaS consolidation waves
“Well, I think that the extra large vendors will benefit big time as they did in the client server era. 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…”
Box CRO: Salesforce remains the best-operated software company on Earth
“I'd strongly argue it was the best, you know, operated software company on earth and probably still is today.”
Box CRO: E-signature belongs in content clouds, not standalone apps
“It's our belief that electronic signature should be part of your content cloud, not another app that you have to go by.”
Box CRO: Sales leaders need deal, people, and strategy skills
“I'm a big believer that sales leaders have skills that you could put in three buckets. You know, they have deal skills. You generally don't get promoted unless you can close deals and make it rain. They have people skills. They're often kind of people, you kno…”
Box CRO: Growth rebound stems from unpaused digital transformation projects
“What we're seeing this year Is that all of the digital transformation initiatives that were backburnered at the start of the pandemic have now been brought to the front of the burner. So all that sort of neglected spend, all those projects that were put on hol…”
Box CRO: SaaS vendor consolidation will be a major enterprise wave
“And so we think that consolidation is definitely, along with digital transformation, consolidation is going to be a big wave in SaaS in the coming years.”
Box CRO: Box grew $100K+ new ARR deals by 56%
“In this most recent quarter, we drove 56% increase in hundred K plus deals, which is a fantastic result.”
Box CRO: Tying comp to renewals matters less than cultural shifts
“And so we did put renewals in the comp plan since I joined box. But the thing that I was really vocal about is that we can move it into the comp plan and it's a relatively small measure in their variable compensation, but it's really the cultural change and th…”
Box CRO: Sales productivity per head rose by 68% over two years
“That's the productivity per head over, over two years has gone up 68%.”
Box CRO: 60-70% quota attainment is healthy for mature SaaS companies
“In a business like ours, where we're not hiring, you know, 40, 50% more reps per year, I really want to see sort of 60 to 70% of the reps making the number, because we are definitely hiring, and we do have people leave the company, so I think that's sort of a …”
Box CRO: Growth problems are rarely caused solely by sales execution
“If you have a growth problem, it's probably being described as a sales problem, and there probably are problems in your sales organization, but they're probably not the only problem.”
Box CRO: Renewals are the single most important growth engine in SaaS
“Renewals are the most important motion in SAS. They are the growth engine. If you don't have a really, really strong renewals motion, it's very, very hard To drive growth.”
Box CRO: Low rep productivity causes sales attrition and ramping imbalances
“If you don't have high performing reps, high participation rate, high productivity rates, or increasing productivity rates, then you will have high attrition in your sales organization. And if you have high sale attrition in your sales organization, then you h…”
Box CRO: Early COVID boost was counterbalanced by attrition in travel
“I think that for us, the boost from COVID was sort of a measured one. So, but we certainly had a lot of customers, you know, we're in a land and expand business, like most SaaS companies. We have a lot of customers that purchased from us departmentally, and th…”
Box CRO: Box has 100k+ customers and 67% Fortune 500 penetration
“We have about a little over a 100,000 customers and about 67% of the Fortune 500”
Box CRO: Box re-accelerated quarterly revenue growth to 14%
“And this is the fiscal year where we've been successful in turning that around, having three consecutive quarters of growth, our most recent one at 14%.”
Box CRO: Box receives no inbound RFPs for content cloud bids
“The truth of the matter is, is there, we don't get any inbound RFPs for companies that are going out to bid for a content cloud.”
Box CRO: Tracking renewals 12-18 months out helps save at-risk accounts
“We're now talking about renewals that are 12 and 18 months out, and that's a very healthy place to be in because with that kind of a window, if you have an account that's maybe at risk, then you have enough time that you can affect some change in that account.”