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Rob Bernstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
214 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

That's the driver.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

It's not, that's, that's something you do at a very different stage.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

No, actually one, uh, gentleman from Oracle, uh, left, started the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

It got it to about 19 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

Uh, and that's why I said to you, January 09, that's why I came in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

Remember that was a very tough time.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

I've taken the company down a lot.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

And three months later, we only had

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

six of the same 19 people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

And then we started building from there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

So we kind of could argue restarted maybe, maybe not, but,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

We really got going with the company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

There was a million in angels.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

It was called a Series A, but it was a million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

And then there was about six more.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

I don't know if a VC firm said that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

I was thinking about this space for some time, and I networked with these folks, and it just makes sense.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
884 SaaS: From Startup to $1b+ IPO, the Coupa Story

I don't think he was necessarily doing anything bad or good.