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Wolan: Talkdesk pitched 'intelligent contact center' with just one AI engineer
“Our kind of white lie at the time was intelligent contact center. We had one AI engineer at the company, but we really wanted to be this AI powered call center.”
Wolan: SaaS moving from AI efficiency to explicit value pricing
“I think we're kind of starting to move out of this era of just AI making you more efficient and then moving into the era of AI delivering value and delivering like explicit customer value that you can price on in a different way and package differently into yo…”
Wolan: Mature PLG companies must combine product-led and sales-led motions
“So what's unique about product-led grownups is that they have managed to take a product-led motion and marry it with some kind of sales assist or sales-led motion.”
Wolan: B2B SaaS must build for the customer's paying customer
“Oh my god, we're actually not building for our customer, we're building for their customer, who is paying them.”
Wolan: Only Salesforce mattered among Talkdesk's 20 revenue-driving integrations
“We had something like 20 different integrations that were actually driving revenue. And really all that mattered was one of those integrations. And it was Salesforce.”
Wolan: Companies Facing Crisis Should Acquire Product-Led Capabilities
“So really think about and kind of look at your business when your back is against the wall. Think about, well, is there somebody I could go and acquire that would actually give me that product-led motion?”
Wolan: Removing growth hacks after implementing them is very difficult
“It's really hard to pull out growth hacks once you put them in.”
Talkdesk built the first five-minute call center onboarding flow in Salesforce
“So we built the first kind of, ah, onboarding flow directly through Salesforce so that the sales engineers at Salesforce could create a call center in five minutes on Salesforce. This is the first time that happened.”
Wolan: Talkdesk mandated self-serve trials for all ecosystem partners
“We require that every single partner that wanted to be in the talk desk ecosystem set up a trial themselves. So this was, like, kind of unheard of in this industry where, you know, these sales cycles took three to six to nine months, and we were saying, no, ac…”
Wolan: LiveRamp acquired Data Plus Math in three weeks for PLG
“And so I think this was the fastest acquisition I've ever been part of. We acquired them in, I think, three weeks. And all of a sudden, we had a product-led motion that was, like, driving a bunch of our sales-led motions at LiveRamp.”
Wolan: Scaling Dropbox to $1B was straightforward; reaching $2B was not
“We were not the fastest company to go from a billion to two billion dollars, but what was interesting about it is, you know, it was like kind of a straightforward path to a billion, but a billion to two billion was not straightforward.”