Fred Shilmover

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Fred Shilmover is best known for co-founding and leading InsightSquared, a sales intelligence SaaS platform acquired by Mediafly in 2021. Prior to InsightSquared, he worked in corporate development at Salesforce and in investing and global IT at Bessemer Venture Partners.

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4 assertions · 2 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 4 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 3 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Shilmover: InsightSquared raised $1M initially and $27M in total VC funding

“So we raised a million dollars in venture capital coming out of the gate and have raised twenty seven million dollars in total.”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 5:12 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

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What they said7 Episodes1

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Assertion Not checkable as stated

Shilmover: InsightSquared is the only BI company specialized strictly in sales

“We're the only sales analytics company or the only analytics and BI company that sort of picked a major and said, we're going to be a subject matter experts in a particular area. Our area is sales.”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 11:45 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Insight

Shilmover: Sales tech is repeating marketing tech's boom ten years later

“Sales is going through you know, a similar shift, maybe 10 years later than marketing went through going into digital. And you saw this explosion in mark of marketing technology companies. I think you're seeing a similar explosion in the opportunity to create …”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 12:12 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Insight

Shilmover: Business decisions are driven by emotion and relationships, not data

“I wish my twenty-year-old self knew that decisions weren't based on, ah, on, on data. Decisions are all emotional. And it's not about it's not just about the merit of how hard you've worked, or how good your product is, or what it says on your resume. Everythi…”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 18:26 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Assertion Supported

Shilmover: InsightSquared raised $1M initially and $27M in total VC funding

“So we raised a million dollars in venture capital coming out of the gate and have raised twenty seven million dollars in total.”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 5:12 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Assertion Not checkable as stated

InsightSquared surpasses 750 customers

“Yeah, so we're over the 750 mark in terms of customers.”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 15:58 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Assertion Not checkable as stated

InsightSquared majority customer sweet spot is 25 to 200 employees

“Yeah, I'd say that the sweet spot for us is sort of 25 to 200 employees is where the majority of our customers are.”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 2:21 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Disclosure

Shilmover: InsightSquared employs around 135 people in Boston

“Yeah, so the company is, we're around 135 people based here in, in, in Copley Square.”

Fred Shilmover Feb 14, 2018 ▶ 7:28 935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
935 How to Reset After Raising $27m and Hiring Too Fast	Feb 14, 2018	11m

Fred Shilmover

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