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Oren Klaff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Yeah, I think the framing on that is important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

You got to think of there isn't an existing trading market for these smaller

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

uh, tertiary market SAS deals.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

I spoke for a venture group in Palo Alto, uh, and this is very common.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

I said, Hey, I got companies, uh, it's clear, clear view.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

So, um, you know, I said, I got a company, a couple of companies might be looking at, I think they're a good fit, you know, from what I've seen from your portfolio and what we talked about here today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

And they said,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

listen, gotta be San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

I mean, prefer Palo Alto, Atherton, Mountain View.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Can we walk to a meeting and see them?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

So there's so much deal flow up there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

If you're in Cincinnati, if you're in Chicago, um, you know, we have a good company that is in, uh, that we're working with that's actually in Florida.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Um, you know, if you're in the North Pacific North, if you're in the Northeast Pacific Northwest, if you're in Austin, in some ways, um, the, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

San Francisco is not a great, you know, nobody really wants to invest in a small company sort of with $15 million pro forma revenue that's in Austin all the way from San Francisco.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

How do you sit on the board?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

It's very distracting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

So, you know, these are geographic markets as well, and that makes them even more smaller.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

So that, so to me, I don't see that, right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

If you can just go to lighter, uh, or, you know, six of those guys, I don't see them.