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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

You know, for me, it was actually a really difficult decision.

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

arguably one of the best companies.

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

And it's not me just drinking the Kool-Aid.

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

I'm just being honest.

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

I mean, I feel it was very humbling and to even have an opportunity to work so closely with the team, the executive team at Salesforce and build what we built over that time.

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

But for me, you know, I developed a bit of an expertise and a network around everything that's CRM.

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

Salesforce automation, customer service, marketing technology.

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

And I also learned kind of what it meant to build a real platform.

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

I think the term platform gets thrown around a lot in our industry, especially in SaaS.

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

And Salesforce is one of the few companies out there that actually has a real platform.

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

They got a programmatic component to it.

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

You can kind of pull apart the UI and the logic and rebuild.

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

You can model any business process.

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

So their largest customers

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

like Coca-Cola, can actually model their business in a really complex way.

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

And what I wanted to do was I was thinking to myself, okay, this is a fabulous opportunity for me at Salesforce, but how can I actually take a lot of what I've learned and apply that and help build the next generations of Salesforce?

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

Maybe not in CRM, but there's plenty of other different industries and opportunities to do that.