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Bob Moore

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
193 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

When you think of that Bill Gates definition,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

The question is, are there companies that literally would not exist if not for having completely been built on top of Uber Conference or you go to the big enterprise side, kind of the go-to-meeting side of the universe?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

And in that regard, I think almost by definition, the vertical of video conferencing is inherently an ecosystem-centric product because what you have is sales enablement on one side, and then you have kind of communication and team collaboration on the other.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

It's not that you build a whole collaboration suite SaaS product on top of a single video conferencing platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Almost anybody that wants to build on a video conferencing will build on multiple of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Therefore, none of them can be the platform with a capital P that they're built on top of.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

When I think of platforms, I think of Amazon Web Services.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

I think Salesforce is a platform.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

uh because their their app store is a true true uh there are companies that are entirely existent because the only thing they do is provide technology on top of salesforce and that those are platform powered companies on that bob let's wrap up here with the famous five number one favorite business book

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Oh, uh, I really right now am actually a big crossing the chasm fan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Like it holds up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

It like, it keeps coming back in my life.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

That book will not go away.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Oh, uh, I'm a huge, uh, Elon Musk fan.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Uh, I think for many, many reasons, but I like the idea of like,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

you know, in your second or third generation of companies, like really taking that step back and saying, what will my great, great, great, great grandkids be glad I worked on?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Um, and I, you know, I think about that a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Uh, and I think he's, he's taken probably one of the most awesome approaches to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Oh, I have enjoyed, um, uh, I'm like a superhuman addict, to be honest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
RJMetrics Founder $4m+ ARR Explains How They Lost To Looker

Uh, superhuman is big in, in my day to day.