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Salesforce churns 3% to 9% of annual revenue, estimates John Lee
“Salesforce is churning anywhere from three to nine percent of the revenue a year on a twelve billion dollar business.”
Abel: SteelBrick reached a $360M exit to Salesforce in seven quarters
“Because there in seven quarters, we achieved, you know, a three hundred sixty million dollar exit to Salesforce.”
Wise: Salesforce lacks enterprise paid media infrastructure
“Well, and the other part of Salesforce, they have, you know, they have CRM you know, they have existing users through social, so it's paid, owned, and earned. They have owned and earned. They don't have paid.”
Salesforce acquired Badger Mapping's primary competitor for roughly $250 million
“I've always got my eye on, on, on Mark Benioff. Cause he bought my biggest competitor for. Two hundred and fifty million bucks or so.”
Superset venture partners served as Habu's CTO and board chairman
“So the sort of the CTO who actually was the CTO of Salesforce's marketing cloud and CTO of my last company, he was the CTO of Habu for two years. The other super set partner is actually chairman of our board.”
Half of SteelBrick's 200 employees were Godard Abel's former BigMachines staff.
“I think of the 200 people we had when Salesforce acquired us, over a hundred were with us at Big Machines, and they were totally dialed in.”
Stage 2 Capital LPs include 250 top go-to-market executives
“What's unique about the stage two capital is that all the people have all the LPs are literally 250 of the sort of biggest go to market leaders in the world. You have literally invested and created this kind of fund that we have access now to people like the p…”
Abel: SteelBrick reached a $360M exit to Salesforce in seven quarters
“Because there in seven quarters, we achieved, you know, three hundred sixty million dollar exit to Salesforce. Really it was better because we got stock, which has since doubled.”
Streamdata.io signed a distribution partnership with Salesforce on AppExchange
“We just signed an agreement with Salesforce. They're gonna distribute us in the AppExchange.”
Prince: Cloudflare reached $50M in revenue within four and a half years
“The metric I remember is that we went from zero to fifty million dollars in, I think, four and a half years, which puts us in some pretty, pretty amazing company with companies like Salesforce and Workday and others.”
Têtu: Coveo powers Salesforce AppExchange and embeds in Adobe Photoshop
“We power the AppExchange you know, at Salesforce, and you know we're embedded within Adobe Photoshop, and you know, we power a lot of the self-service sites of a lot of the software companies.”
Cabrera: Salesforce was Xactly's first customer and an early investor
“They were an investor in the company early. If you read my book on Amazon game, the plan, you can read how they were really the people that caused me to leave my previous company to start this company. And Salesforce was our very first customer and is today ou…”
Salesforce AppExchange launched before the Apple App Store
“And I think what was really exciting is it was before the Apple ice store and the Apple iPhone store.”
Fulkerson: MindTouch counts Salesforce, McKinsey, Whirlpool, and Docker as customers
“Our customers will range from Accenture, McKinsey, Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Amana, Maytag Remington, ElectroLox Fisher & Paykel. So a lot of consumer brands, a lot of software companies. So most of the software unicorns, Zora, Domo, Docker they use MindTouch as …”
Fuller: PandaDoc closed partnerships with HubSpot, Oracle, and Salesforce
“We've built and close partnerships with companies as large as HubSpot Oracle Salesforce where basically our product is in front of their customers and they're kind of, Power resellers, so to speak.”
Crystal has not raised capital since a January 2018 Salesforce round
“We've not raised since January, 2018. That was the last round that Salesforce put in.”
Walker: Dialpad acquired Salesforce-backed TalkIQ around 2018
“Yeah, so we acquired this company called Talk IQ about two years ago. They were funded by Salesforce and a couple other great VCs.”