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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

And coming from Salesforce, I can tell you right now, that can be daunting.

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

If you just want to do something like figure out why your paycheck was wrong, that can be a hard problem to solve.

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

So this is one of those companies where early stage, less than a year old, I'm coming in as both a former CEO and entrepreneur myself and

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

And also kind of thinking ahead, how are we going to build a really big company?

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

Because they're going after the enterprise on day one.

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

So, you know, I came into this company and hit the ground running.

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

You're talking Socrates or MVP?

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

Yeah, Socrates is one of my investments at MVP.

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

You know, fantastic initial founding team.

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

There's a lot of building that we need to do, a lot of product strategy, a lot of building out the rest of the team, a lot of introductions and breaking into some pretty large teams.

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

And so that's one of the ones where I think I'm going to work my hardest to add the most value in the short term.

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

So that's a good one because they're only about seven months old.

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

Are you hunting for a company where you can actually go in and join full time?

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

Joining full time is less likely.

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

I've already invested in four different companies over a fairly short amount of time, and I'm sure I'll do more.

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

What I really want to do, though, is I want to spend the time that I do have with these companies focusing on things that I can actually help with.

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

I'm not an expert in every area, that's for sure.