Fortune 500
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28 statements across 26 episodes · 15 bullish · 1 bearish · 26 people on the record · first statement Apr 25, 2017 by Bill Bryce · said 141 times in 104 episodes since 2016 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Nathan Latka (42), Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer (4), Lawrence Sotsky (4), Muhammad Younas (3), Eric Harrell (3), Dan Ruch (3), Sati Hillyer (2), Richard Jones (2)
tap a year for its mentions
2026 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2023 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
2022 5 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
2021 19 mentions in 9 episodes 2 per episode
- SaaS Helps 50 F500 Brands Unlock Tax Credits, Targeting $6m ARR This Year
- Profitable UserZoom Hits $80m Run Rate, 1k Customers, $500m+ Valuation
- Gamers contribute GPU To this SaaS Marketplace Raising $15m at $70m Valuation with $5m in Revenue
- Ardius Finds $500m in Tax Credits for Startups, Exits to Gusto
- vFairs Breaks $30m ARR bootstrapped, turns down $500m Offer
- Slintel Breaks $6m ARR, $20m Raise on $100m Valuation Ready to Take on B2B Intelligence Space
- Hype4 Breaks $500k, Massive Design and Dev Community, SaaS Next?
- He Spent $300k Buying SaaS Companies, Sold them For $2m
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2021 →
2020 19 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
- Mode Grows 95% to $19m ARR, Turning Analysis Into Superhero's
- 1684 With $60M in ARR, How Braze Drives Serious Expansion Revenue on Old Cohorts
- AlgoPix Hits $2.4m Revenue Helping CPG Brands Monitor Competitors Pricing
- WriterAccess Makes $9m This Year, Pays Freelancers $6.4m Helping 5,000 Brands With Content
- GreySuit Hits $4m Revenue Helping 700 Furniture Brands Manage Meta-Data
- Cylynt Security SaaS To Break $10m Up From $6m Last Year, Bootstrapped
- Richter Hits $4.5m Fine Tuning Sales Process For F500 Brands
- MediaFly To Acquire More, $20m in ARR, Burning $600k/mo, $28m Raised
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2020 →
2019 18 mentions in 15 episodes 1 per episode
- 1429 Enterprise Collect Customer Data With This $11m ARR Tool
- 1281 Contently Pays Creators $30m Annually, Passes $20m in ARR 40% yoy growth
- 1258 This Singapore Based SaaS Helps You Manage Empoyee Feedback, $40k in MRR, 8x yoy growth
- 1617 How He Closed 50,000 Seat Deals on Day 1
- 1594 The Main Reason He Took $1.5m Government Loan at 4% Instead of VC
- 1578 Why This CEO Only Has One Pricing Axis Despite Knowing Expansion Revenue Critical
- 1572 How This CEO Plans to be IPO Ready in 2 Years
- 1569 Why 1000+ Boarddecks Get Manged Using This $7m ARR Tool
- 7 more episodes that year, every mention in 2019 →
2018 37 mentions in 25 episodes 1 per episode
- 1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?
- 984 New King of Influencer Marketing Grows Revenue 6x YoY to $8m
- 966 "We'll Process $1b in Corporate Travel Expenses Over Next 24 Months" Says RocketTrip CEO
- 942 0-50m Users Now Launching Paid SaaS Model at $120/yr To Gamify Learning
- 1088 How Ex-Salesforce Leader Launched Video for Salespeople Growing 100% YoY
- 996 Guess Why This $600m Man Came out of "Martha Vineyard" Retirement
- 1207 How This Author Launched $800k+ Conference and Research Revenue Stream
- 1203 SEMRush to hit $80m ARR This Year, Here's How
- 17 more episodes that year, every mention in 2018 →
2017 22 mentions in 17 episodes 1 per episode
- 708: $35M Raised to Tell IT Departments What Alerts Are Important
- 818: AdTech: Spongecell Passes $13m+ ARR, Lets Old Customers Go, $26m Raised
- 766: This Company Used Evangelical Christian Mobile Data to Influence US Elections
- 886 SaaS: 27 Year Old Breaks $240m in Annual Revenue, Piping of the Internet
- 875 SaaS: Bizable Passes $1m MRR in Attribution Wars
- 870 SaaS: $190m Raised, 150 Customers, $60m+ ARR for Supply Chain Management
- 857 How The New Rich Use Instagram To Travel $10k+ For Free
- 844: SaaS: How Ignoring CAC Works for ~$100m ARR Expensify
- 9 more episodes that year, every mention in 2017 →
2016 14 mentions in 11 episodes 1 per episode
- EP 447: $0 to $13M Agency Revenue in 10 Years with RaizLabs CEO Greg Raiz
- Giving Up on $1MM+ Consulting Business For $1B+ SaaS Idea, EP 277: Khalid Saleh
- EP 497: Woopra $1M Raised, $1.6M 2015 Revenue, $300k MRR To Help Businesses Get Smarter with CEO Elie Khoury
- EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov
- EP 418: Executive Recruiter Made $1.1M 2015, Super High Profit Margin with Matt Schwartz of MJSearch.com
- His Agency Has 30% Net Margin on 1,200,000 Top Line in 2015, EP 296: Rob Riggs
- Quit 6 Figure Corporate Job With a Kid to Launch SaaS Startup, EP 267: Prem Bhatia
- YEC Lands Forbes Partnership, 1000's of Paying Members Early EP 232
- 3 more episodes that year, every mention in 2016 →
Everything said about Fortune 500, oldest first
Apr 25, 2017
Jun 20, 2017 positive
Jul 2, 2017 positive
Mar 17, 2018
Apr 4, 2018 positive
Apr 16, 2018
Apr 19, 2018 positive
Jun 23, 2018
Fouladgar-Mercer: Early-Stage Startups Lack Bandwidth to Sell Multiple Products
“When you're a company that's not a fortune, 500 business, trying to sell two products is very difficult. And you really have to, you really don't have time as a company to sell even one of them, let alone multiple products.”
Jun 23, 2018
Jul 10, 2018
Jul 14, 2018 bullish
Jul 17, 2018 positive
Nov 9, 2018 bullish
Jan 12, 2019 bullish
Jan 26, 2019 positive
Jul 9, 2019
Nov 10, 2019 positive
The US Supreme Court Uses Passageways for Its Board Management
“Now we have some of the largest customers in the world using our product, including some, you know very amazing non-profits Supreme Court in our country is using our product, some of the Fortune, 500 companies some of the biggest banks and hospitals using our …”
Nov 13, 2019
Dec 28, 2019 positive
Sturges: AskHR launched with about a dozen major customers, including Fortune 500
“So officially we're pre-revenue, but we have we've launched with probably about a dozen major customers and then a couple of other smaller customers. And we're lucky that some of those customers are in the fortune 500 space.”
Mar 4, 2020 neutral
Braze maintains a gross revenue churn rate of 5% to 10%
“Yeah. Something like that. You know, and it depends on the category. Obviously the kind of more traditional enterprise fortune 500 are going to be on the lower end of that. And then when we're looking at you know, mid market digital first companies and other r…”
Mar 4, 2020 neutral
May 2, 2020 positive
Jun 21, 2020 neutral
Fortune 500s lack engineering talent to deploy computer vision
“One of the interesting things to note about computer vision right now is it's still very early on in the industry's adoption, and so a lot of these Fortune 500 companies or governments that we work with don't have the capacity or engineering talent To take thi…”
Jul 1, 2020 positive
Oct 6, 2020 positive
Cornish: Enterprise clients buy strategic communication rather than video production
“I don't believe that clients are coming to us for video. I believe they're coming to us for communication. Our job is to actually understand who's watching this, why they're watching this, what are the pain points, how to get in their head and how to move peop…”
Apr 17, 2021 positive
May 9, 2021
Jan 27, 2022 negative
Danilo: Pursuing enterprise customers early slows down product-market fit
“We did it, you know, exactly the other way where we started with fortune to 500 accounts, which had its pros namely that you can get really big contracts really quickly. I think like as, Like, you know, just get ready to get bogged down. And also it's like a l…”