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Nathan Latka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
223533 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Takeaway for all of you guys is you should have a kill sheet for every competitor that basically lists on the left side all the different features and then how you win or how you lose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

And that kill sheet should be in with all your sales reps so they can talk about positioning, edit the kill sheet every week, and keep making the kill sheet better.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

I tried to ask you with a straight face, but I'm just kidding.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

So it was 2.6.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

What options, like, do you, what do you predict Pendo's outcome will be?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Are there enough buyers since you've raised such a high valuation, or do you have to really IPO?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

It's IPO or bust.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

But who are the private market buyers that would have enough cash to sort of buy you guys?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Or do you really just have to IPO?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Who would be like the top one or two?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

When you were at Pendo, did you ever get a term sheet from Vista?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Okay, but interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Why did the verbal calls never get to a term sheet?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

He's good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

He's good on his feet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

On that note, 597 bucks, January 1st, 2015, the first customer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Pendo Shares Board Deck Slides, Breaks $200m Revenue, Lessons with Co-Founder Eric Boduch

Now, scaled in 2017 to $13 million, you saw his playbook really using webinars, organic website traffic, and in-person events, branding the color pink, branding kill sheets, and product positioning.