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You may think competition matters, but a great head of engineering and product will outpace the competition. Our head of product, head of engineering, like pretty much everybody in leadership. A bunch of them we hired out of business school, or out of engineering school, and came up through our farm system.”
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In 2021, everyone bought 100 new sales and revenue apps to keep the sales engine humming, along with large investments on the human side of RevOps, Customer Success, and more. For the most part, folks seem done investing in more productivity for their sales humans. Unless it leverages AI.
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Hire those extra engineers. But then a time comes at $1m, $2m, $4m ARR when you have to let it go. You have to pay folks market. You have to hire those extra few reps that we don’t really have leads for today. Do that extra trade show. It’s OK … it resolves itself over time.
Speaker: Bob Webber, VP Product Flow Optimization, Construx
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Give that VP of Sales / Marketing / Engineering more time. But … but … 9 times out of 10, there’s another customer that also will want that exact same feature. So instead of saying No, ask yourself if others would also value it. And then just charge more for it. It does take time to turn the ship. More time, the bigger the ship.
The Atlassian engine just keeps on running. By customer count, the smallest ones still make up 85% of all Atlassian customers. #9. Rolling Out More Premium Versions of Its Products To drive up deal sizes, they’re charging more for newer editions with more. Even at almost $5 Billion in ARR. Pretty impressive. Pretty, pretty impressive.
You can’t pay a great engineer in the Bay Area $60k a year forever. But first-time founders often don’t seem to truly model the real costs right. They assume the prior costs basis sort of “rolls forward” Turns out it doesn’t.
221,000 Total Paying Customers, But 65% of Revenue From 3,200 Large Customers This is what you should see when a “long tail” engine is just working at scale. Wall Street wants revenue that is durable. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1. Just don’t neglect the small ones.
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“And as engineers,” Sanjit explains, “we just like building things. A lot of Samsara’s early sales leaders, sales reps, and a lot of engineers all liked working together. It was a very big company and they were being asked to work on other parts of the business that weren’t related to Meraki.
Now, to some extent, the issues here have been masked by several factors: The VC engine continues, more or less, and has been re-energized by AI. The Top 10 Software acquirors’ M&A activity is down -90% or more from 2021. See above from Thomasz. Deals are fast and furious. Mostly this is actually anti-liquidity.
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She should hire leaders for Sales, Marketing, Engineering, Product and Customer Success, or at least most of them. If growth is accelerating, especially. I still believe a CEO should “do it all” in terms of building a decent management team first before hiring a COO. Hiring a strong COO between Management Team 1.0 and Management 2.0
And a true engine of growth. #9. Is you new customer count growing > 20%? Palantir is doing far better, at +41%. #8. NRR of 114% I would have expected even higher given the huge deal sizes, but no matter, still top tier at scale. Palantir is doing scores of bootcamps, in person, to show them how.
Engineering teams within AI application startups are much smaller than a classic software company - maybe half the size or less. Because software companies aren’t valued on profitability - true within the venture capital & public markets alike - the cost savings from halving engineering teams aren’t that impactful.
He brought 20+ engineers with him, with outsized equity packages. Many solo founders find this person later, and it works just as well [7][10]. Prioritize Great Early Hires. And Save A Lot of Equity For Them. This is what Eric Yuan did at Zoom as a solo founder. Without a co-founder, your first 10 hires are even more critical.
As an innovative concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry, and emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. Attendance of this webinar will earn one PDH toward your NPDP certification for the Product Development and Management Association.
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