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Raaz Herzberg

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1806 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

It's in this balance.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

It's in this balance.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

A lot of things we did build for customers, but there were things that were aligned to that North Star, and we never built them without the knowledge that it could scale for everybody.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

A lot of things we did build for customers, but there were things that were aligned to that North Star, and we never built them without the knowledge that it could scale for everybody.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

And so that's one of the things that actually made execution at Wiz and development super fast, because everybody's building always for one North Star, and there's no one-offs that you regret, and there's no refactors, because it had to match that North Star and that scale.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

And so that's one of the things that actually made execution at Wiz and development super fast, because everybody's building always for one North Star, and there's no one-offs that you regret, and there's no refactors, because it had to match that North Star and that scale.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

I think the beautiful thing is you constantly feel that way, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

I think the beautiful thing is you constantly feel that way, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

When you build a product, it's not perfect.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

When you build a product, it's not perfect.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

It's always missing a million things and always there's so much more you can do, especially when you solve a big problem.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

It's always missing a million things and always there's so much more you can do, especially when you solve a big problem.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

I think in Wiz, we had areas that in earlier phases of the company, it didn't make sense for us to expand into from a product perspective.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

I think in Wiz, we had areas that in earlier phases of the company, it didn't make sense for us to expand into from a product perspective.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

But over time, we grew into it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

But over time, we grew into it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

And so those are places where I think sometimes we were, maybe we were very cautious about that North Star.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

And so those are places where I think sometimes we were, maybe we were very cautious about that North Star.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

And if we went backwards, it would have been more clear to me that we should have said, oh yeah, we're going to expand there.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg

And if we went backwards, it would have been more clear to me that we should have said, oh yeah, we're going to expand there.