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Scott Beechuk

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
277 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

Uh, you know, it's usually, Hey, uh, love what you're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

I I'm actually, uh, and I'm a VC, but I come from a software background, a company building background.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

We'd love to talk to you about how you're building this amazing company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And that's, it's kind of how we get started.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

Favorite business book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

So this one's a little bit cliche, but there's a reason.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And I'm going to say Crossing the Chasm by Jeffrey Moore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

He kind of invented the technology lifecycle adoption curve and his diffusions of innovations model and choosing a target market, understanding the whole product concept and positioning the product, all that good stuff.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

But the thing that really, really connected me with that book is that I actually had an opportunity to work with Jeffrey Moore while I was at Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And he is as brilliant or more brilliant in person than he comes off in that book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And the book is one of those quintessential publications that it just sort of transcends all of these bubble bubbles and trends and technologies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

It just applies broadly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And ever since he published it, it's still relevant even today.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And so that's that's one of my top.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

It's just a classic.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

But more recently, Steve, Steve Blank and the four steps to the epiphany.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

I mean, that is just if you want to learn how to build a lean startup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

I mean, that is the book to read.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

And so it's kind of a model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1060 Why I Left Salesforce To Join VC Firm

It's like a template you can apply to a startup.