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Todd Olson

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
613 total appearances

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

It's still pretty aggressive out there.

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

So, I mean, ultimately, we want to build a category leader.

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

That's the way I think about it.

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

Yeah, I think loosely, you know, we're calling it product experience.

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

We think it's kind of this crossover between a mixture of analytics and in-app engagement.

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

So it's kind of, you know.

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

When I started the company, we saw these two spaces out there and we said, you know, I think the ultimate winner is going to have the union of those two.

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

And that's been our thesis since day one.

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

That's driven our roadmap.

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

It's driven our strategy.

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

And I think you're starting to see more signs that that's the way the market's moving.

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

I think Intercom's got a very different focus.

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

I think they're trying to revolutionize customer communications, next generation CRM.

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

I see them trying to disrupt the support tools like Zendesk and Freshdesk more so than attacking Pendo.

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

So I think there's plenty of room in the market for Intercom and Pendo to coexist.

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

So I don't actually see them as competitive at all.

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

Yeah, I think the company we see most frequently in deals is a company called WalkMe.

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

They started traditionally in the training space or the in-app messaging space.

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

You know, they're not really known for analytics at all.

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

So, you know, in many ways, just half of our product competes against them.