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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

incredible amount of data and again broke the system because it's another level of scale.

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

Each of these companies, when something broke, we did work that unlocked a step function of new scale, but you wouldn't have known it until you got it.

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

And that's the lesson.

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

Sometimes things have to break and fall over to actually see what you need to fix.

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

And look, I'm wearing a shirt.

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

We used to print shirts when we had numbers events.

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

It says 100 billion events on it.

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

We now get over 100 billion a week.

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

And this is when we had 100 billion cumulatively.

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

This is probably back in that 2017 range.

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

We have tens of trillions of events now.

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

So the reality is, like, what...

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

Our brains sometimes can't process, and they hold us back from doing things.

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

Sometimes you just got to go get the customer, deal a little bit of pain, and work through it.

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

And this is how we've done it in driving some of the sex we've had.

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

And with that, thank you for your time.

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

It's great to be here.

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

Enjoy the rest of your day.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1115 How Pendo CEO Uses War Chest to Acquire Companies, Integrate

It was $160 million, which is the size of many IPOs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1115 How Pendo CEO Uses War Chest to Acquire Companies, Integrate

Yeah, Pendo is what we call a product experience platform.