14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life
146 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★ - 2 ratingsListen to wisdom from the true champions of SaaS. Stephen Cummins interviews founders of hyper-growth SaaS ScaleUps with category leading data for customer success & employee success. Interviews are conducted face to face in Dublin, Lisbon, Berlin, Hong Kong & New Orleans (no remote calls). We examine personal histories, learnings & opinions of the world’s most successful SaaS StartUp entrepreneurs. We cover most of these in each episode; short life history, the WHY, day in the life, personal motivations (many are financially secure), personal attributes leading to success, weaknesses, what makes the current SaaS company special & successful, advice for entrepreneurs, opinion on the future of work & future tech, what they’d do if they walked away, work-life balance, the city they work in, distributed or remote teams v co-located or in-office teams. If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of becoming an entrepreneur (or if you are on that road already), join us! #14MoS
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E122 – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann – 3 of 3 – Market beats Team beats Product
October 08, 2020 14:03 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBEpisode 122 of 14 minutes of SaaS – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann – 3 of 3 – chats with AppSelekt CEO Stephen Cummins in Lisbon: "Market beats the team, beats the product. In the sense that picking the right market is often more important than anything else. But then getting the right team in place is more important than you having a good idea or not because it's the initial idea ... it's going to evolve. It's not like you’re sitting in the bathtub with the rubber duck and saying th...
E121 – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann – 2 of 3 – Embracing Negative Reviews
October 08, 2020 14:02 - 14 minutes - 13 MBEpisode 121 of 14 minutes of SaaS – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann – 2 of 3 – chats with AppSelekt CEO Stephen Cummins in Lisbon: "It’s ok to get negative reviews. Actually negative reviews can be more valuable for you than positive reviews ... We did an AB split test where we're showing consumers a page with one negative review. And the other page has zero reviews. And then we do a split test that says “so which one are people more likely to buy from? And people are far, far more li...
E120 – Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Holten Muhlmann – 1 of 3 – From the Basement
October 08, 2020 14:01 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MBEpisode 120, 1 of 3. Trustpilot CEO Founder Peter Mühlmann interviewed by Stephen Cummins, CEO & Founder of AppSelekt for 14 Minutes of SaaS. "I sold a lot on the eBays of the world and then I thought, actually I would like to start my own website also ... nobody bought because they suspected that it was just Peter sitting in a basement with his friend, two kids, selling electronics ... that was it was actually true. And I didn't want to refer them to the eBays of the world because all my co...
E119 – Braze CEO CoFounder Bill Magnuson – 2 of 2 – Mobile is Personal
August 06, 2020 15:46 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MB"If something needs to be audacious and if something needs to be comprehensive in order for it to really make the change, you gotta figure out a way to invest in that. And I think that, you know, when you look at … a great example is looking at Space X where they have this big audacious goal but they’ve figured out, you know, in… in as lean as you can get in the rocket world. Like ‘How do we actually sell something to the market so that we can go in and we can learn? And we can fund the thing...
E118 – Braze CEO CoFounder Bill Magnuson – 1 of 2 – Reading the Tea Leaves
August 06, 2020 15:36 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MB"Fundamentally, this problem that we’re trying to solve which is; 'How do we understand people better while they’re interacting with the brand in order to, kind of, communicate with them in a way that’s more valuable to them?' That’s a fundamental human reality and it’s one that’s not tied to any particular generation of technology. And it’s also one that’s not tied to a category of business" Bill Magnuson, CEO & CoFounder of Braze
E117 – App Annie CEO Ted Krantz – 3 of 3 – Adding Lustre to the Gem
July 30, 2020 13:56 - 13 minutes - 12.6 MBApp Annie CEO Ted Krantz in conversation with Stephen Cummins - part 3 of 3. "Keep your head down and get it done. There's too much of a tendency today to self-promote, to push and ask for the constant, you know, next level. And I think you have to … there's a mix of make it happen and let it happen .. And then you've got to round yourself out .. Sometimes executives, even at the highest levels, they have a very difficult time balancing execution and strategy"
E116 – App Annie CEO Ted Krantz – 2 of 3 – SaaS to DaaS
July 30, 2020 13:46 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBApp Annie CEO Ted Krantz in conversation with Stephen Cummins - part 2 of 3. "So you have the full footprint of mobile performance. Then what we’re doing is we’re moving from metrics that we do traditionally like downloads, revenue, monthly active users, daily active users; to strategic C-Suite metrics that we can now calculate with these two datasets … that get us to customer acquisition costs, lifetime value, return on ad spend"
E115 – App Annie CEO Ted Krantz – 1 of 3 – Forged in B2B Software Sales
July 30, 2020 13:36 - 13 minutes - 12.5 MBApp Annie CEO Ted Krantz in conversation with Stephen Cummins - part 1 of 3. "I've had three legends that I've been pretty close to. Craig Conway early on at Peoplesoft, you know. And then I moved over with Tom Siebel at C3. I’m very close to Bill McDermott still today at SAP"
E114 – Bob Moore – 3 of 3 – All about the Network
June 05, 2020 12:02 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBBob Moore, CEO & Co-founder of Crossbeam, in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "Start with something that you know and you've empathy for and you think you can have some success behind, and that success will propel you potentially into that thing being great and huge"
114 – Bob Moore – 3 of 3 – All about the Network
June 05, 2020 12:02 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBBob Moore, CEO & Co-founder of Crossbeam, in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "Start with something that you know and you've empathy for and you think you can have some success behind, and that success will propel you potentially into that thing being great and huge"
113 – Bob Moore – 2 of 3 – Selling it Twice
June 05, 2020 11:46 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBBob Moore, CEO & Co-founder of Crossbeam, in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "80 percent of companies say 'we are a platform'. We can't all be platforms. A platform is like the baseline thing on which everything here should be built. It's a mesh of these companies self-identifying as platforms, but the real word should be 'ecosystem'"
E113 – Bob Moore – 2 of 3 – Selling it Twice
June 05, 2020 11:46 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBBob Moore, CEO & Co-founder of Crossbeam, in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "80 percent of companies say 'we are a platform'. We can't all be platforms. A platform is like the baseline thing on which everything here should be built. It's a mesh of these companies self-identifying as platforms, but the real word should be 'ecosystem'"
E112 – Bob Moore – 1 of 3 – The Hammer that found a Nail
June 05, 2020 11:32 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MBBob Moore, CEO & Co-founder of Crossbeam, in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "I knew I wanted to start a company before I knew what company I wanted to start. And that is a really problematic way to get into it, because I think a lot of people end up in this mode where you're a hammer looking for a nail"
E111 – Christian Gabriel – 240 Degree Decision
May 27, 2020 16:06 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBChristian Gabriel talking with Stephen Cummins "They started off saying, ‘You know, yeah, we'd love to build Capdesk. If we can get, you know, 15 percent of your company in warrants, we'll build it.’ And once we built the prototype and our second funding round came up, I then asked them, you know, how much would it cost to hire two of you to go full time? And they gave me this ridiculous price. So then I said, 'You want to be equal co-founders, then? ... And they said ‘Yes. Wow!’ And the firs...
E110 – Ilan Twig – 4 of 4 – Halcyon Days
May 14, 2020 01:56 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBTripActions Co-founder Ilan Twig in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "When I worked for HP, there was no goal and everything was certain. And I'm just thinking about it right now. But that was the reality back then. That's why I was a walking dead. At least for me, I need to have something to aim for. And I need to wake up in the morning knowing that I need to solve something. I need to challenge myself with something. Be true to yourself … because when you start masking it with whatever bu...
E109 – Ilan Twig – 3 of 4 – Fantastic Voyage
May 14, 2020 01:51 - 15 minutes - 14 MBTripActions Co-founder Ilan Twig in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "Expenses are a pain in the butt. What you optimise for when you travel for work is completely different than what you optimise for when you travel for leisure. We thought if there is a way that we could then make people think about how they make their decisions when it comes to corporate travel more similar to how they do it when they book their leisure travel, there is an interesting opportunity for saving money for the ...
E108 – Ilan Twig – 2 of 4 – Stream to Ocean
May 14, 2020 01:46 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MBTripActions Co-founder Ilan Twig in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "We sold StreamOnce, but I didn’t really feel that I filled a desire of building a company in the valley. It’s a nine month journey. So really there was nothing. We knew that the next thing would have to be big. And in order for that to be big, the market must be big. You know, there are markets you can have the most amazing idea, but if the market is small and you are the most successful with no competition, it will still...
E107 – Ilan Twig – 1 of 4 – Loving the Machine
May 14, 2020 01:41 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBTripActions Co-founder Ilan Twig in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "I never try to impress. I always assume I know less. And I think this created space for wonderful relationships. And relationships are so important when you start a company."
E106 – Georg Petschnigg – 6 of 6 – Perpetually Meaningful Movement
April 29, 2020 21:56 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBGeorg Petschnigg in conversation with Stephen Cummins at the Web Summit in Lisbon: "Start with the team ... Because like, who knows where are things gonna go? Like, you want to be with people you like .. that you learn from, right? Because there will be highs, there will be lows. And there might not even be light at the end of the tunnel. But you will enjoy the journey if you enjoy the people that you’re with. So it’s like you’re already a winner no matter what happens if, you know, if you ha...
E105 – Georg Petschnigg – 5 of 6 – New and Old Amsterdam
April 29, 2020 21:51 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBGeorg Petschnigg, in conversation with Stephen Cummins: "Having a tool for great thinking - Paper. Having a great tool to see inspiration and hold onto it - Collect. Having a tool to show, you know, your work -Paste. Having a great tool to deliver your ideas – Transfer. Right. So, we have a tool for thinking, seeing, showing and delivering. These are sort of the pillars of the creative process.And that's an incredibly exciting proposition, right? Because the world hasn't...doesn't understand ...
E104 – Georg Petschnigg – 4 of 6 – Dancing with Big Tech
April 29, 2020 21:46 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBHaving a business that has a hybrid business model where you can counter and interact with your consumer … either with free or subscription. That's what makes it so powerful because you're actually … I think WeTransfer is one of the few companies that can dance with the big tech companies. But can do it authentically, because we don't we do not depend on their distribution.
E103 – Georg Petschnigg – 3 of 6 – Beautifully Obvious, Fifty Three to WeTransfer
April 29, 2020 21:41 - 16 minutes - 15.2 MBWhy did Bas and the team actually build WeTransfer? Well because they wanted to get behind great ideas. Okay? That's why it exists. Right? It's not to send the file. It is to make a client happy … to get like your music out … to deliver the great video! That's why they got into this! It’s the same reasons why we got started with Fifty Three! We got into it because people have those ideas locked in your head, and you have to get them out. And that's sort of where we then, you know, start think...
E102 – Georg Petschnigg – 2 of 6 – New Found Liberty
April 29, 2020 21:36 - 16 minutes - 15 MBAnd, you know, the name, you know, is very much inspired from like working with industrial designers, but also like being familiar with the body. The length of average arms reaches Fifty Three centimetres. That’s the space between head, heart and blank canvas. It's in that circumference where, like, people do their best work. And we wanted to make sure that our tools, which are essential to us for creation, would fit into that space. That’s essentially where in one number, we essentially wrap...
E101 – Georg Petschnigg – 1 of 6 – Not a Real Nowhere Man
April 29, 2020 21:34 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MBPart 1 of a 6-part series for 14 Minutes of SaaS. Georg Petschnigg in conversation with Stephen Cummins. "It's funny because my childhood rebellion then actually ended up… you know, leaving that sort of entrepreneurial spirit of the household home and then joining a major American corporation. So I ended up joining Microsoft out of college then and starting my career there. And that was more like, yeah, that's …. my rebellion was working for the man!"
E100 – Godard Abel – Infinite Aisle of Buyer Experiences – 3 of 3
April 01, 2020 13:46 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MB"You do need obviously commitment and perseverance – so obviously only pick an idea you really willing to almost die for. Because you will have struggles, every one of my companies had struggles. And so really having that belief that this really should come into the world is super important - so you can get through the tough times."
E99 – Godard Abel – Data, not Magic – 2 of 3
April 01, 2020 13:32 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB"G2, at the beginning there was a lot of skepticism in the first couple of years ... the first 2 million bucks we have to fund ourselves ... VCs were like “I get the concept, but are enterprise users going to share? … and how long is this gonna take you?” And we couldn't generate any revenue either for a couple of years. We had no metrics. So we were fortunate, we could do it because we believed in it so much"
E98 – Godard Abel – Solving a problem close to home – 1 of 3
April 01, 2020 13:17 - 15 minutes - 14.3 MB"I started a company in Silicon Valley, but we decided to move to Chicago partly because we had to go the organic road. We had to save money ... So I kind of realised I more, back then, strategy. I had been a consultant MBA, but I was too theoretical about business and I realized, ‘Wow, the only way we're going to grow organically … we have to close the next deal on the table.’ And then I just shifted my priority to like, ‘Hey, what's the next steps to close the next deal?’ And I'm just gonna...
E97 – Eric Boduch – Co-founder of Pendo – Love your Product – 2 of 2
March 13, 2020 21:32 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB"As founders, we all had product backgrounds … we all understood this pain … like we all had this issue of how do you get data about how your software is being used? ... We install a snippet of code and then it just works. It captures everything that's like super empowering to me as a product manager" Eric Boduch, co-Founder of Pendo
E96 – Eric Boduch – Co-founder of Pendo – Small Town Exit – 1 of 2
March 13, 2020 21:17 - 15 minutes - 14.6 MB"We looked at each other one night when we were working rather late, which we had a tendency to do. Right. Do we really want to run a consulting company? We looked at each other and we;re both like .. No! So then we start thinking, well, what do we want to do? And from that we said; ‘Well, we really like the idea of building a product!’" Eric Boduch, Co-founder of Pendo
E95 – Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Officer at Paddle – Speedboat for Scaleups – 2 of 2
March 13, 2020 20:01 - 15 minutes - 14.4 MB"The US for us is a very large market, if not the largest. And they get to benefit from the luxury that they're existing in a huge market in their own right. They don't have to think about Europe until they're quite late in their journey. But per your comments in doing so, they grow a lot slower than anyone else [internationally]. And I think one way we're encouraging to think about that earlier is by providing them with the infrastructure that they can just turn on" Harrison Rose, CoFounder ...
E94 – Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Office of Paddle – Schoolboy Entrepreneurs – 1 of 2
March 13, 2020 19:47 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MB"The same day that I picked up my A-level results, I drove straight to Paddle's first office for our very first day at Paddle. The reason why a SaaS company should either win or lose shouldn't be how well they’ve invested in some of their billing infrastructure … or whether they've done that right or not. It should be on the quality of their products, and the value of that delivery." Harrison Rose, CoFounder & Chief Customer Office of Paddle in conversation with Stephen Cummins, AppSelekt fou...
E93 – Michael Litt, CEO & coFounder of Vidyard – Pruning the Rosebush – 2 of 2
March 13, 2020 17:47 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB"I realised in the process of hiring and going from 50 to 200 people, and taking really good individual contributors and making them managers … we didn't really think about firing. We didn't think about the negative aspect of that and basically pruning the rosebush ...... [on the reverse freemium] "we try to provide as much valuable value as possible to those end users for free, and then have discussions about upgrading to other features over time. If they never do, that's totally fine becaus...
E92 – Michael Litt, CEO & coFounder of Vidyard – Blackberry Ice Cream – 1 of 2
March 13, 2020 17:33 - 15 minutes - 14.2 MB"YouTube on Blackberry's website was a bit of a challenge because a YouTube player functions as an outbound link to YouTube's website - which is an ad monetised platform …. that's how they make money. If your competitors are smart, they can advertise against the videos you have on your homepage". Michael Litt, CEO & co-Founder of Vidyard. Solving this challenge for Blackberry (v. Apple) was the birth of his scaleup, video hosting platform Vidyard
E91 – Hande Cilingir, Insider CEO & Co-founder – 3 of 3 – Surrounded by Good People
February 11, 2020 06:02 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBPart 3 of 3 episodes with Hande Cilinger, CEO & Co-founder of Insider. in conversation with Stephen Cummins in Hong Kong. She talks about the importance of founders developing company culture and finding good people that align with the same core beliefs and principles
E90 – Hande Cilingir, Insider CEO & Co-founder – 2 of 3 – Evolution of Insider
February 11, 2020 05:52 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBThis is part 2 of 3. Recorded at RISE in HK, Hande Cilingir, Insider CEO & Co-founder in conversation with Stephen Cummins. We learn how Insider got product market fit, and how they’ve scaled. We get a fascinating perspective on Turkish history, and she discusses work-life balance for founders
E89 – Hande Cilingir, Insider CEO & Co-founder – 1 of 3 – Born Entrepreneur
February 11, 2020 05:47 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MB1 of 3 with Stephen Cummins chatting to Hande Cilingir, CEO & Co-founder of Insider, a growth management platform for digital marketers. We hear about Hande's humble background in Turkey, the influence of her parents, her education, and the influences of London and Shanghai
E88 – Anna Gong, Perx CEO – 3 of 3 – Raising the Bar
February 11, 2020 05:42 - 14 minutes - 13 MB3 of 3 recorded at RISE HK, Anna Gong, the CEO & Board Member of Perx tells Stephen Cummins about being bullied in school growing up as a Chinese immigrant in Florida. She talks about how the perceived difficulty of entry into south-east Asia actually represents an opportunity. Anna also reflects on what keeps her motivated, and people that influenced her
E87 – Anna Gong, Perx CEO – 2 of 3 – Drowning in Pipeline
February 11, 2020 05:37 - 14 minutes - 13.4 MB2 of 3. Anna Gong, the CEO & Board Member of Perx in conversation with Stephen Cummins. Anna talks about escaping her lucrative corporate straight-jacket to a baptism of fire in Perx - where she pivoted to turn the company right side up. She also explains how she couldn’t hire people of the right standard from old-school software companies
E86 – Anna Gong, Perx CEO – 1 of 3 – Never give up!
February 11, 2020 05:32 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MB1 of 3. In RISE HK, Stephen Cummins chats with Anna Gong, the CEO of Perx- an enterprise B2B SaaS company using machine learning to augment customer loyalty. She has strong self belief is an arch creator of hyper-growth. She's moved from Guangzhou (China) to Florida to many cities in Silicon Valley to Singapore to Japan. As CEO, Anna practically re-founded Perx
E85 – Larry Gadea, Envoy CEO & Founder – 3 of 3 – Make Boring Exciting!
January 29, 2020 08:02 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBWe find out why it’s great to look for the most boring problems imaginable, and then set about making the solution sexy in order to attract the most talented people out there to the company. Final part of a 3 part mini-series with Stephen Cummins interviewing Larry Gadea, CEO & Co-Founder of Envoy for 14 Minutes of SaaS.
E85 – Larry Gadea, Envoy CEO & Founder – 3 of 3 – fall in love with boring and make it exciting
January 29, 2020 08:02 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBWe find out why it’s great to look for the most boring problems imaginable, and then set about making the solution sexy in order to attract the most talented people out there to the company. Final part of a 3 part mini-series with Stephen Cummins interviewing Larry Gadea, CEO & Co-Founder of Envoy for 14 Minutes of SaaS.
E84 – Larry Gadea, Envoy CEO & Founder – 2 of 3 – a Trojan Horse
January 29, 2020 07:46 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBLarry describes Envoy as a Trojan Horse to “get into people’s offices though the front desk and through the visitor sign in to the rest of the office.” 2nd of a 3 part mini-series with Stephen Cummins interviewing Larry Gadea, CEO & Co-Founder of Envoy for 14 Minutes of SaaS. Larry reveals why his Trojan Horse strategy has turned his initially simple start-up idea into a platform for upgrading the office experience. #14MoS
E83 – Larry Gadea, Envoy CEO & Founder – 1 of 3 – from Ceaușescu to Caduceus, an Inspirational Tale of Crossing Thresholds
January 29, 2020 07:31 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBOf all the great people Stephen interviewed for 14 Minutes of SaaS, CEO & Founder of Envoy, Larry Gadea, is the one that crossed the most thresholds (and facilitated the crossing of them of course) - from crossing land borders to entering offices to rapidly removing roadblocks on his entrepreneurial journey. Larry takes us through his early days in Google, Shopify and Twitter. He explains that while a clear value prop and a consistent user experience has been important in turning Envoy’s bran...
E83 – Larry Gadea, Envoy CEO & Founder – 1 of 3 – from Ceaușescu to Caduceus, Crossing Thresholds
January 29, 2020 07:31 - 17 minutes - 23.6 MBOf all the great people Stephen interviewed for 14 Minutes of SaaS, CEO & Founder of Envoy, Larry Gadea, is the one that crossed the most thresholds (and facilitated the crossing of them of course) - from crossing land borders to entering offices to rapidly removing roadblocks on his entrepreneurial journey. Larry takes us through his early days in Google, Shopify and Twitter. He explains that while a clear value prop and a consistent user experience has been important in turning Envoy’s bran...
E82 – Winnie Lee, COO & Co-founder at Appier – 2 of 2 – 72 Hour Work Week
January 29, 2020 07:16 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBConcluding episode of a 2-part 14 Minutes of SaaS conversation in RISE Hong Kong - Stephen Cummins interviews Winnie Lee, COO and Co-founder of Appier. Winnie, a self-confessed workaholic, tells us why she’s happy to work 72 hours a week. She also explains why she believes Taiwan is a great choice of country in which to start up a software company
E82 – Winnie Lee, COO & Co-founder at Appier – 2 of 2 – the 72 Hour Work Week
January 29, 2020 07:16 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MBConcluding episode of a 2-part 14 Minutes of SaaS conversation in RISE Hong Kong - Stephen Cummins interviews Winnie Lee, COO and Co-founder of Appier. Winnie, a self-confessed workaholic, tells us why she’s happy to work 72 hours a week. She also explains why she believes Taiwan is a great choice of country in which to start up a software company
E81 – Winnie Lee, COO & Co-founder at Appier – 1 of 2 – from Immunology to Artificial Intelligence
January 29, 2020 07:06 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBStephen Cummins interviews Winnie Lee, COO and Co-founder of Appier – an AI driven platform that helps enterprise scale B2B entities make better marketing decisions.HQ’d in the city of Taipei, Appier also has offices in japan and Singapore, and has raised 80M USD since this interview. The newspaper Taiwan News recently claimed that Appier is a new unicorn. Part 1 of a 2 episode interview that took place at RISE, Hong Kong #14MoS
E81 – Winnie Lee, COO & Co-founder at Appier – 1 of 2 – Molecular to Artificial Intelligence
January 29, 2020 07:06 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBStephen Cummins interviews Winnie Lee, COO and Co-founder of Appier – an AI driven platform that helps enterprise scale B2B entities make better marketing decisions.HQ’d in the city of Taipei, Appier also has offices in japan and Singapore, and has raised 80M USD since this interview. The newspaper Taiwan News recently claimed that Appier is a new unicorn. Part 1 of a 2 episode interview that took place at RISE, Hong Kong #14MoS
E80 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 5 of 5. Build your Rocket’s Red Button first!
December 06, 2019 16:56 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBEpisode 80 of 14 Minutes is the final one of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "I talked a little bit about why Myspace lost. We were not narrow. We were in every vertical you ever could be in. So, in the early stage, you have to be ruthless about doing one thing great and not many things kind of okay ... I think this is where a lot of founders struggle, because they're smart people … they have so many ideas"
E80 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 5 of 5. The Rocket’s Red Button
December 06, 2019 16:56 - 14 minutes - 20.4 MBEpisode 80 of 14 Minutes is the final one of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "I talked a little bit about why Myspace lost. We were not narrow. We were in every vertical you ever could be in. So, in the early stage, you have to be ruthless about doing one thing great and not many things kind of okay ... I think this is where a lot of founders struggle, because they're smart people … they have so many ideas"