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David Skok

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
217 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

There's really no major established player there other than ADP, and ADP is an easy target.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

I think you're probably familiar with what I've seen, which is I haven't yet met a happy ADP customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

Yes, to reinforce your thing, we do care a lot about category leaders if you can find them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

Oftentimes, you have to take a bet on something different to that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

And one of the key things that we will take a bet on is the quality of the entrepreneur themselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

We really deeply believe in looking at the person, trying to figure out, do we think that this person is the best placed person to come up with the right kind of ideas and to sell their ideas to hire a great team behind them, be able to raise capital, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

And we'll back that person, even if it's not that clear how

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

category leading their idea might be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

And that's proven to be very successful for us because those kind of key entrepreneurs just do amazing things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

Yes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

I think the answer is it's a very dangerous phenomenon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

If you are on the wrong end of it, you're going to get damaged by it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

Because when you look at Didi and Uber, they threw just tons of money at dominating the market in the early days.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

They effectively bought riders and they bought drivers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

In China.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

In China, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

And also in the US, actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

I think it's probably now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

factor that's gone from this market because they've focused on profitability here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund

But in the early days, it was certainly a case of, you know, if you were in a competitive environment, you needed to buy riders and you need to buy drivers as fast as you could do.