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Jay Fulcher

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
211 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

They expect mobility.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

They expect products

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

to be able to talk to one another, seamless integration, I mean you don't need the commercial here but you know this ability for young businesses especially not to be distracted by all the administration of running a business is crucial and what is really cool I think about what we're trying to go do is that we have this opportunity to not only do that with our own products but with a really neat ecosystem of partners that kind of extend our capabilities

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

in ways that companies did not have prior to this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

And they certainly didn't have it with the likes of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

ADP or any of the paycoms, paylocities, the companies that have been at this for a long time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

In the last five years, we've made a lot of progress here and we've driven and built our software with what I consider to be sort of the latest and greatest technology capability that lets these young companies focus on driving their businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

So my favorite book, um, this is a hard one cause I love, I love all of them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

I love so many of them, but I, my, my, my friend Ben Horowitz wrote the hard thing about hard things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

And that is a phenomenal book for any entrepreneur that's listening.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

If you've not, not only read it, but then begun to dog ear it and, and frankly use it as a reference point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

I really recommend you do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

So I had the luxury of reporting to both Dave Duffield at PeopleSoft and Hasso Plattner at SAP.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

And that just means I'm really old.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

But it also means that I got to see these guys up close and personal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

So I learned so much from those guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

But the guy that right now I think is really blazing a trail for what I consider to be sort of next generation talent.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

CEO thinking is Mark Benioff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1095 His First Move at Zenefits? 450 Laid Off. Now Eyeing Profitability and $100m in ARR

I think Mark's done a great job around being a socially responsible company.