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Todd Olson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
613 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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

So across weeks, not a single negative interaction with our support team.

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

We average about just less than 200 tickets a week.

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

Well, support and success are part of the broader customer success organization.

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

So that organization is probably two dozen people.

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

And sales is about double that.

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

Yeah, absolutely.

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

For a good portion of my time there, I owned the roadmap.

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

Well, that wasn't a company that I founded.

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

So, I mean, we did get acquired in.

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

So, I mean, there, there is, um,

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

I wouldn't give myself full credit for that checkbox personally.

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

So, I mean, I was part of an amazing team there and I played my role.

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

Yeah, I mean, look, we...

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

There's a lot of interesting milestones.

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

I mean, a lot of the way I look at it, IPO or not IPO, I think the goal is that can you put yourself in a position to continue building a bigger and bigger business, right?

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

So, I mean, I think loosely speaking, we talk about category leadership as the ultimate goal.

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

I mean, you want to own your category.

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

And what we see in markets is that the category leader gets the bulk of the revenue in that category.

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

And we still aren't there yet.

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

I mean, we still have competition there.