David Skok

6 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 1, 2018 by Mike Lapchick · said 15 times in 11 episodes since 2017 · across every show →

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brought up most by Mike Lapchick (3), Nicolas Vandenberghe (2), Nathan Latka (2), Ian Blair (2), Stefan Fountain (1), Sam Jacobs (1), Liam Martin (1), Lars van Wieren (1)

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Everything said about David Skok, oldest first

Jun 1, 2018 positive
Opinion
Lapchick: SaaS investor David Skok is brilliant despite backing Shotfarm's rival
“No, I'm not a CEO, but I do follow David Skok quite, Closely. So North bridge. So these guys are ironically investors in, in my biggest competitor, but the guy's freaking brilliant.”
Mike Lapchick Jun 1, 2018 ▶ 25:11 1042 "We're selling the company right now" for $10m+
Sep 4, 2018 negative
Insight
Skok: Annual logo churn above 20% signals missing product-market fit
“Any logo churn number that's greater than 20% per annum is worrying, and it's evidence that you don't have good product market fit in one of your customer segments.”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 13:40 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
Sep 4, 2018 positive
Insight
Skok: Early startups should use professional services to discover product fit
“And in particular, in the really early days of a startup, I actually really like having services that are deeply engaged with one or two customers because That's how you really learn whether the product's actually going to work or not work and what are the iss…”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 19:08 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
Sep 4, 2018 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Skok: HubSpot originally launched with flat $500/month pricing and no expansion axis
“So in, in HubSpot's case, we started with us with an idea that simplicity was going to be great. And so we had one price point, which was 500 bucks a month, 6000 dollars a year for every single customer, regardless of what was going on. And there was no expans…”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 9:12 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
Sep 4, 2018 neutral
Disclosure
Skok avoids reading startup commentary to keep his writing original
“I'm because of not wanting to pollute my brain with other people's ideas. I'm actually fairly careful to stay away from reading too much of what other people are saying about startups. And that's, it may sound like a really odd thing, but I always want to be w…”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 26:46 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
May 4, 2022 neutral
Insight
Single-feature software products risk being swallowed by platform gravity wells
“The gravity well is that you build a software and then there's somebody next to you that can include your features in their offering. And so boom the, you know, the features fall into that product, the gravity well, and you don't want to be in that position wh…”
Nicolas Vandenberghe May 4, 2022 ▶ 31:48 $20m Payday and he still controls ChiliPiper with his Wife Alina
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