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P.V. Kannan

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
132 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So, you know, we have we had to like pause and our sales pipeline essentially vanished.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So it took about a year to recover.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

Now we are like we in our last quarter was our best quarter in the company's history in terms of new revenue bookings.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

You know, it's about 20 percent growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

The Sequoia portfolio is a very good portfolio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So we have events and other structured time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

And I also spend time with other Sequoia partners, not just Mike Moritz.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

because they're all helping enterprise companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So you kind of like, you know, lean on them to get advice and inputs as to, you know, what goes on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

And I have my own network of CEOs here that I spend time with.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So, you know, like you said, you pick the right person for the right type of problem, because some folks that I talk to are very good with people issues.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

Some are good with customer issues.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

Some are good with talent issues, like what kind of talent do you hire?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

Because, you know, as you grow the company for every stage, you need the right management team and the right people underneath to help scale the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

And we've seen it with whether it's Facebook or Uber, you see that, you know, as it matures, different types of leaders, different types of leadership styles start coming into effect.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

The technology side of the company is about 800 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

We also have a services business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So, you know, one of the secret sauce of what we do is we also employ human agents to teach AI.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

So, you know, we have a few thousand agents in that category as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1501 247.ai Passes $300m ARR, 10% EBITDA, No $6B Vista Sale

Both, the combination.