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Todd Olson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
613 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

You see the yellow is interviews.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And it is a fun fact that I interviewed nearly every person at the company up until 500 employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

This is just a snapshot of a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

This is, I'm averaging three probably a day every day of my life and sometimes on weekends.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

I mean, we're a global company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

I'm doing calls at night.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

I'm doing calls in the early morning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

I'm interviewing a lot of people and everyone's like, is it because you don't trust your people?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Are you a control freak?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

I mean,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Yeah, probably a little bit.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

So I'll own that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

But one of my mentors, and now board members, he and I were talking, and he did a very similar thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And his response to the question of, don't you trust me, was, I don't trust myself.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

And that's how I feel in interviewing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

Let's be honest, folks.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

We meet someone for 30 minutes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

As good as you are as a human, you have no idea how that human is going to be.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

I mean, if you are, I would love to find out what questions you ask and what like savant level, like deep dive into people's psychology you have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
The $100m Pendo Story: The Crazy Not-Scaleable Stuff We Did At Every Stage

But the reality is people have gotten good at interviewing.