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Godard Abel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1167 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

Henry's been doing this incredibly well at Zoom Info.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

But I also think the best way to make acquisitions happen is to partner first.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

And certainly that's what Salesforce does.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

You get to know each other.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

You actually make sure your products work together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

Do customers love them together?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

And then it can lead to very natural acquisitions.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

So we did one at Steelbrick where we went from CPQ to Quota Cash.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

We bought a billing company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

That was a great partner of ours.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

And that really expanded the vision.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

Now it's Salesforce Revenue Cloud.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

It's CPQ plus billing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

And then also G2, we've done a couple siftery that brought us G2 Track, G2 Stack.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

So it's an exciting way to expand your footprint more quickly once you have momentum, once you have money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

But I think what I've done poorly so far, and I would do better like Henry, is I think we haven't been thoughtful enough about integration.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

And so I think that's something we want to do better going forward.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

In terms of talent,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

I think when you're starting, and you've all had this, Henry talked about yesterday, at the beginning, frankly, you can't afford experienced people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how

You don't want them.