访谈嘉宾:Doug Landis,Emergene Capital 增长合伙人
串场嘉宾:Peter Cheng,靖亚资本创始管理合伙人
本期播客,我们有幸请到Doug Landis,他曾在Salesforce、Oracle、Google、box工作并积累了 Go-go-Market 和增长领域丰富的成功实践经验,在Emergence Capital 6年多时间内一直在帮助其被投企业突破增长的瓶颈。
Emergence Capital 拥有超过20年的投资经验,创立至今管理的6支基金投资了超过100家创业机构,包括Salesforce、Zoom、Veeva和Bill.com等,被投企业总市值超过4500亿美金。
本期播客是一期全英文的访谈,期待为大家带来新的视角。
00:50 Quick intro about Emergence and Doug Landis
02:25 What kinds of business metrics do you use to evaluate whether to make an investment in a cloud startup?
04:25 What common mistakes would founders make in the early days in the term of GTM?
07:30 At Emergence, how do you see the GenAI hype and its impact on enterprise software/cloud?
14:03 How would GenAI change cloud startups’ sales and marketing?
20:15 More and more Chinese cloud startups are planning to go global, particularly the U.S. What GTM advice would you give to founders planning to go overseas?
27:16 You have been with Google, Oracle, Salesforce and Box. What are the most valuable growth stories you can share with the audience?
33:30 You are a great storyteller. What are the key elements for telling a good story?
38:01 Can you give an example of a great storyteller and why you were so impressed by him/her?