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Marc Zionts

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
196 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

I came in through the Vista side of things to run automated insights.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

I've been running companies since 1987.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

So, and a hundred percent of what I've done my whole life is technology.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

And just, you know, and I just love the technology that we have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

Great team, great set of customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

So it's a very exciting time for our company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

Yeah, so I knew a number of the Vista CEOs and Vista people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

So you're right that sometimes that happens where an operating partner looks at the deal and they take over.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

In this case, I was a known entity to Vista and I was very, very interested in working with Vista because they're quite unique.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

And that uniqueness is that they exclusively invest in enterprise SaaS companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

So when you think of private equity, there's some niche firms that are very vertically focused, but they tend to be smaller.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

Vista is very large, but vertically focused on software businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

You see other companies in their size, they may invest all over the place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

They don't necessarily have an expertise in the industry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

So I think the Vista model is quite unique.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

I think it brings a lot of advantage to our customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

I also think it's very attractive for our team because it provides them with a tremendous amount of development and how to operate a business with best practices.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

I don't have a total customer count, but it is several hundred customers that are active.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

And what's really interesting is that our sales team is in the US, so we're based in Durham, North Carolina.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1195 3 Metrics Automated Insights Focuses on as a Private Equity Owned Company

We now have people on the East Coast, on the West Coast.