Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And it was exciting to me because at the time, this was 2006, it was to go on the web to get off the web, right? As I said, we did some things right but we also struggled a bunch and never really got to product market fit or monetization strategy in the Sports Fight community. Find people in your community to play sports with.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

And then before that, he served as the CMO of Just a small company you may have heard of, uh, called Salesforce, uh, where he was responsible for driving really the whole global corporate and product marketing functions and led the team during a time period where Salesforce was really going through hyper growth. 00:10:00] Okay.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

At the time, there may be four or five other firms doing this same strategy of investing somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million into companies that were just getting started we would call it pre product market fit. But we think of it as being sort of CO conspirators with the founders pre-product market fit.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Most people know the YC Accelerator, but YC actually has a number of programs now, including Amook, the Accelerator, a Series A program to help companies raise Series A, and a growth program to help companies expand post product market fit. Sometimes we call ourselves experts in failure. Like any good list, I have a top ten list.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With 36 years of experience and more than 180 million active monthly users, Office 365 dominated the market for more than 20 years. Going up against the only major player in the market must have seemed like a formidable task when G Suite came on the scene in 2006, but its native cloud platform is now Office 365’s major competitor.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Just yesterday, someone in the product marketing team shared a Coda doc with me that’s acting as the entire project plan and content repository for another whole of our marketing site we’re working on. I get asked a lot why YouTube happened in 2006 instead of in 2000 or 10 years earlier. Shishir: Yeah.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Travis Bryant: So I was in services at a software company and then had this pivot point to go either into product management or into sales and sales engineering. I had the good fortune, my first SaaS experience was at the Mothership Salesforce in 2006, prior to even the word cloud being thrown around.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We started the company back in 2006, so we’re obsessed like grandparents these days. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. Brian Halligan: So yes, product market fit, but obsess over go to market fit and build a real moat. Brian Halligan: Sure.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We started the company back in 2006, so we’re obsessed like grandparents these days. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. Brian Halligan: So yes, product market fit, but obsess over go to market fit and build a real moat. Brian Halligan: Sure.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I have not been to San Francisco this year and this will be the first time since 2006 that I haven’t been to San Francisco in a year, which is just crazy. Des: I know I’m supposed to put on a brave face and be like, “Oh, well we all worked it out.” But more than that, I haven’t been anywhere.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

As for Rachel, prior to joining Pilot, she saw the hyper-growth of Slack firsthand enjoying a couple of different roles including Head of Growth Marketing and then also Head of Self Service and Platform Marketing. Before Slack, Rachel spent 4 years at LinkedIn where she led the product marketing team for content experiences.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Prior to Sailthru, Cassie served as VP Marketing & Analytics at Gerson Lehrman Group (“GLG”) and as VP Marketing & Growth for Savored (acquired by Groupon). And so the takeaway from that was, hey, this is a huge product marketing opportunity. We have to be beating people over the head, right?

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2025

Look at these feeble M&A-specific exit multiples from Aventis: Thus, many startups are tightly managing their cash reserves to buy time and hopefully sell into a better market. Branding is therefore the last bastion of differentiation So, we need to win deals based not on product superiority, but on brand value and experience.

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