Benny Schneider

Co-Founder & President, Salto · 1 appearance on the record.

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Benny Schneider is an Israeli technology entrepreneur who co-founded companies including PentaCom, P-Cube, Qumranet, and Ravello Systems. He is the co-founder and president of Salto, an infrastructure software company applying DevOps methodologies to business operations and SaaS configuration.

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The record, in short

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Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted

Schneider: Salto syncs SaaS configurations, whereas Zapier just moves data

“If you think about Zapier that you just mentioned, they are connecting more the data at Move. We are connecting the configuration of all those tools, and we are synchronizing the configuration. So if you think about this, there are three parts here. There is t…”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 19:16 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

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What they said9 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Schneider: Enterprise customers utilize thousands of distinct business SaaS tools

“In reality, people will always talk to you about two, three, maybe four, one for CRM, one for finance, one for marketing, and maybe one for HR. But when we go and talk to customer, they have thousands of tools.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 4:27 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Insight

Schneider: Startup success is binary, so ignore cap table dilution

“I always say that success is binary. Don't worry about how much is left. Make sure that you are successful first, and then everything will be will fall into the right place.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 14:06 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Assertion Contradicted

Schneider: Salto syncs SaaS configurations, whereas Zapier just moves data

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 19:16 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Insight

Schneider: Business operations tooling lags decades behind modern software engineering

“If you think about the methodology being used by the developer, they are like, fifth generation of, ah, you know, technology. When you look at the technology used to develop the other tools, the business operation tools, they are like two G.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 2:07 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Insight

Schneider: Late-Stage Funds Enable Israeli Startups to Avoid Early Exits

“Finally, the late stage funds have discovered Israel. So we see, we call them crossover fund, but it's really late stage that are allowing Israeli companies to run all the way and not sell themselves too early to American corporations. Like we did, let's say f…”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 20:20 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Schneider: Salto has about 10 paying customers

“We are working with tens of customers and we have already about 10 paying customers.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 6:33 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Assertion Partly supported

Schneider: Salto raised about $70M across three funding rounds

“We raised all together, like you said, 70, about seventy million dollars in three rounds.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 7:04 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Disclosure

Schneider: Most Salto VCs previously backed his earlier companies

“We use Most of the VCs that we use in the past. So, you know, with some of the VCs, it's like the third time. Some of them, it's the second time.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 8:17 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Disclosure

Schneider: Salesforce is an investor in Salto

“Salesforce is one of our investors and they are definitely helping us within the ecosystem.”

Benny Schneider Dec 27, 2021 ▶ 15:03 $70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valuation?

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
$70m Raised with just $10k in MRR? Can this Devops for SalesOps tool Grow Into Lofty Valua	Dec 27, 2021	12m

Benny Schneider

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