Enterprise Investing with Matt Garratt

Village Global Podcast

English - May 21, 2019 12:00 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 79 ratings
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Erik is joined on this episode by Matt Garratt (@mdgarratt), managing partner at Salesforce Ventures.

They discuss:

* Trends in enterprise software and enterprise investing, including voice, consumerization, and no-code.

* How their thinking has evolved over time and where they’re looking to invest.

* As a corporate VC fund, how to think about the potential for investing in companies that might come to disrupt the “parent” company.

* How their fund is enabling innovation in the enterprise.

* Why everyone seems to have “missed” Zoom.

* How the corporate development and venture teams interact at Salesforce.

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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg, and the show is produced by Brett Bolkowy.