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Snow: Organizational silence kills most mergers, not cultural conflict
“Is what, when you dig deep, what normally kills most mergers, and most synergy in mergers, is they, ah, they didn't, ah, they actually, they had what was called organizational silence.”
Snow: Contently raised $20M, one quarter of competitor funding
“We've raised twenty million dollars in total which is about a quarter of any of our competitors which is great for us because we're, you know, similar size and have an outsized presence in presence in our own content marketing.”
Snow: Took two-month sabbatical so team would stop bypassing new CMO
“So I realized that I was not the CMO that was going to take our company to the next step function. So I hired a replacement and after a month of getting her up to speed, I wanted people to stop going around me. And really for the mantle to fall on her. And so …”
Snow: Wright brothers forced themselves to switch debate sides during intense arguments
“What their rule was is whatever side that Wilbur had took in the morning, he had to take the other side in the afternoon and vice versa. So when they got to the point where they were going to kill each other, they had to switch sides.”
Snow: Contently validated SaaS model by selling 13 subscriptions at $1K
“My partners and I deciding to do a test to start selling some features of the project management tool for a monthly fee of a thousand dollars, and when we sold 13 in the first month, we said, okay this is the business, and here we are.”