Tom Tunguz
JULY 20, 2014
In fact, I found only two books: a textbook on private equity and venture capital by HBS professor Joshua Lerner, and an out-of-print collection of 32 VC interviews called “ Done Deals ,” published in September 2000. By my estimates, VCs are investing less than 1 ⁄ 3 of of the roughly $100B deployed in 2000.
The Angel VC
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
In a Wall Street Journal interview that was published yesterday, Bill Gurley , General Partner at Benchmark and one of the smartest and most successful VCs of all time, said that the current environment reminds him of the tech bubble of the late 1990s: “Every incremental day that goes past I have this feeling a little bit more. and $41.8B
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SaaStr
APRIL 7, 2022
Today, every single global 2000 company has somebody thinking about RPA and next year every division within a global 2000 company will think about RPA. Any one employee, and you’re required to have at least three interviews, can say no and there’s no exceptions asked. There’s no plateauing. I don’t-.
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 2, 2020
Every employee is empowered to spend up to $2000 on a guest , whether that’s overnighting a forgotten item or sending a complimentary birthday cake and champagne. You can also read a full transcript of the interview which has been lightly edited for clarity. For them, proactive outreach is part of the job.
SaaStr
JUNE 21, 2024
You don’t end up saving time because you have to interview different firms and onboard them, and you still have to look through resumes, do back-channel references, take calls with them, and more. In 2000, Salesforce was an early-stage startup that stood outside a competitor’s conference in San Francisco, staging a fake protest.
SaaStr
JANUARY 21, 2020
When I’m hiring salespeople, I take the mission, vision, values, whether it’s helping practices thrive, whether your values are speak up, work hard, tying those into interview questions. Do they peel the onion back during the interview? Hey Dan, these are the quotas that we talked about during the interview process.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” Everybody got a $2000 a year budget to go to conferences like this to do continuing education. And it worked great.
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