Zach Rosen

Co-founder & Board Member, Pantheon Systems · 1 appearance on the record.

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Zack Rosen co-founded and spent over a decade as CEO of Pantheon, building it into a leading WebOps platform. He also co-founded California YIMBY, Abundant SF, and the Abundance Network.

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Everything Zach Rosen said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Insight

Traditional multi-year website relaunch projects are fundamentally flawed

“We think that the way actually most marketers build a website is completely wrong. The way most websites get built is you have a essentially a website relaunch project where you know, you don't like your current website, so you go in and hire, you know, the ma…”

Zach Rosen Sep 26, 2018 ▶ 8:50 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Insight

A 10-developer agency loses hundreds of thousands annually on unbillable operations

“An agency with 10 developers will spend a couple 100,000 dollars a year on this stuff that they can't bill. So we can actually make that profitable for them. So we can save them a couple 100,000 dollars of lost billable time”

Zach Rosen Sep 26, 2018 ▶ 15:42 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

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Website operations is a $200B market with multiple $100M-plus incumbents

“The issue in our marketplace, as is true in many marketplaces, is it's a two hundred billion dollar a year market. So and there are seven or eight companies who are, you know, well north of a hundred million run rate.”

Zach Rosen Sep 26, 2018 ▶ 17:42 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Insight

The venture tech ecosystem secretly functions primarily on a mentorship model

“The thing about the venture tech world, which is kind of a secret sauce, is it really functions mostly on a mentorship model, which you don't appreciate from the outside.”

Zach Rosen Sep 26, 2018 ▶ 21:22 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Disclosure

Pantheon contracts range from $20 a month to millions

“It ranges from, you know, a few hundred dollars a year, you know, 20, 30 bucks a month, up to three customers, you know, in the millions.”

Zach Rosen Sep 26, 2018 ▶ 3:27 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

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NBC and The Economist paid Rosen's agency over $1M for DevOps

“So we helped rebuild Economist and projects for the NBC where you know, they pay upwards of a million dollars just on the DevOps infrastructure.”

Zach Rosen Sep 26, 2018 ▶ 5:03 1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1159 SF Company w/ $50m Raised "Of course we're burning cash!"	Sep 26, 2018	12m

Zach Rosen

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