Dhillon: Looking to invest in or acquire Quadrant 2 planning tools
Gaurav Dhillon · 652: SnapLogic Raises $136M, $70M+ ARR Helping 750 Customers ($138k ACV) Connect Data Streams with CEO Gaurav Dhillon · May 7, 2017 · at 23:32
SnapLogic CEO Gaurav Dhillon discusses daily software tools during a rapid-fire Q&A segment with host Nathan Latka.
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“I'm looking for, if somebody wants a big check for us to buy something, I'm looking for the modern equivalent of seven habits. How do you do quadrant two time management and planning? It's really missing. We have a lot of to-do lists, a lot of noise. We need more signal in our scheduling and in our strat planning because the money we can make or lose time, we can never buy. So I'm actually in the market for something.”
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