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Rory O'Driscoll

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1063 total appearances

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

It's just, you'd have to, and you want to have a team of in triple digit number of employees.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

You hope the other categories are just behind in a sense, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

But maybe it's intrinsic to the extreme value in a very large category of software.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

So I think the overall growth is the key question.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Could I just go back to one point on Cursor versus Figma?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Because I do think it's so important to founders and investors.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I think one risk is that Cursor completely displaced Figma.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

We don't need it.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

That's unlikely for a lot of reasons.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

I think the bigger risk for so many vendors is that it maims Figma.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

What does that mean, Jason?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

The old customers don't leave, okay?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

HubSpot and Box and even Anthropic using it, they don't leave, they renew.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

They don't buy as many seats, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Because the team is also using Cursor.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

But of course they don't churn.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

The logo retention remains good, but NRR drifts down and new customers, the next generation, the kids from YC, they defer that purchase.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

because they're doing enough in cursor.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

And I'm seeing this across my older portfolio, that folks are maimed.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Will SpaceX IPO at $1.5TRN | Will Cursor Kill Figma | Lightspeed Raises $9BN | OpenAI: $1BN from Disney, New CRO & #1 App in App Store | Oracle and Broadcom Hit: Now the Time to Buy?

Like the existing retention's good, but the new guys are just taking enough of the new budget that your growth materially decreases.