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Jay Poe

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
133 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

I really like Intercom as one of our companies that I think we invested a couple years ago, and they're doing a lot of great things in the customer space.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

B2C customer communication space via chat, via just customer support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

And I think that's an area that I'm currently looking at.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

And I think they're really leading the way in terms of building that customer experience that I think leads to great businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

So that's definitely one of them that's up there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

Another one that I think is really great is a company called Procore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

And this is a company that has been, we invested, I think, a year ago, I think 2014.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

And it's kind of one of those unsexy companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

It's basically SaaS solutions for the construction industry, which isn't really top of mind when you think about cool companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

But that's another one that I'm really interested in and think that has a huge future.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

So collectively we have just over 4 billion assets under management, and we just raised our ninth fund, which is 1.6 billion right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

I absolutely did.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

Yes, yes, absolutely.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

Oh, you mean in the first round?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

In terms of number of millions, well, so we were really lucky in that we had a really good group of investors on our side that have been following the company during its early stages of growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

I think they were definitely pre-revenue at the time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

Their user engagement was definitely young.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 99: Will Pinterest IPO in 2016 w/ $4b VC

This was like in 2000 and 2011, so really back in the day.