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Scott Beechuk

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277 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

And I actually got pretty excited about the thought that, you know, we learned a lot of great stuff along the way.

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

And the team at Salesforce, for me, it was both a learning strategy and execution exercise.

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

And so I took a lot of that with me.

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

We also built some really strong partnerships at Salesforce.

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

And arguably one of the most successful partnership organizations, they call it the AppExchange.

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

And that is a great model, I think, for any company.

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

It doesn't even have to be just a SaaS company, but any company.

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

How do you actually build value-based partnerships that actually deliver value on both sides, like a bilateral win-win?

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

Everybody likes to talk about it.

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

Really hard to do.

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

And so those are some of the things that started getting the gears turning in my head.

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

Well, how can I actually take all of that learning and the things that worked and the things that didn't work and apply that broadly over a multiple different companies?

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

I love building companies.

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

I always have.

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

And whether it's starting from scratch or joining somewhere in the early part of the journey, I'm on the venture side.

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

And so I love companies that are asking themselves the question, how do I become the next great SaaS company?

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

And Salesforce is certainly one of those.

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

Well, happy to do that.

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

Right now, I'll tell you what, I've never been more excited about what I'm doing than I am right now.