Rujul Zaparde

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Jan 8, 2025
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Zaparde: A significant majority of Zip's business comes from outbound sales
“Even today, we're a significant majority outbound for urban business today, not inbound”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 19:11 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025
Insight
Zaparde: Closing 10 cold customers indicates true product-market fit
“If you can get 10 different people and 10 different companies in the world to, you know, take out their proverbial credit cards and buy your thing when they don't owe you anything in the world, that means like you're more likely to have market fit.”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 18:43 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025
Disclosure
Zaparde: FlightCar pitched 80 firms and reached two weeks of runway
“I even remember our series a, I pitched, I got to know a lot of people because I pitched like 80 different firms nearly all of whom, except for one said no. And I remember at a point where we had like two weeks of cash left and we were like You know, payroll …”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 9:12 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025 positive
Opinion
Zaparde: Airbnb needed conflict to stop promotion-driven projects
“There was like, there was a need for change, right? And like a need for like creating conflict within the company to actually ask the hard questions and say, Hey, do we need these folks or are, or, you know, are we actually doing this project because somebody …”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 13:33 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025
Insight
Zaparde: Early enterprise software must not be free, or feedback is useless
“It is important to charge because I've also seen founders that like want to do a design partner thing, or, you know, it's free for some reason because they're just, As a founder, right? You're like, I have no customers or like a few customers. I don't have con…”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 20:24 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025 neutral
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Zaparde: Airbnb grew from ~30 to over 100 PMs in under three years
“I think I was the, if I remember, I was like the 30th or something product manager. And then when I left almost three years later, two and a half years later, there were like a hundred something product managers.”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 11:59 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025
Insight
Zaparde: Unjustified hiring creates self-inflicted pain by forcing employees to generate work
“It's so important to have the right incentives for your team members, because you don't want to create situations where you have a lot of people that, ah, were hired because maybe some people wanted to, you know, build up their functions or teams, and there wa…”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 12:10 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
Jan 8, 2025 neutral
Insight
Zaparde: Board meetings should focus on what's broken, not what's working
“If we have a board meeting, which obviously we have board meetings, like, I'd rather we just focus on what's broken in the business, because ultimately, that's how we get better. Like, I don't want us to spend a lot of time talking about what's going well, bec…”
Rujul Zaparde Jan 8, 2025 ▶ 23:55 Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder · Y Combinator
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