In this episode, Elias Rubel is joined by Arjun Sethi, co-founder at Tribe. Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm launched by a trio of former Social Capital. Some of their previous select investments include Digital Currency Group, Intercom, Slack, Relativity, Carta, Cover, Invenia, Front, Cloud Kitchens and many more. He is an entrepreneur who learns and adapts quickly. In this episode he shares lessons learned along the way.
[04:39] Arjun’s background
[07:16] How grew up here in the Valley and a lot of my family was coming from all over the world
[10:13] How to judge whether it is math question vs communications question
[12:04] The journey into the SaaS business
[16:34] The process of seizing fabulous opportunity right now
[16:35] You only need to have a hundred customers and then you can scale something
[19:22] The challenge of scaling your first company
[27:04] Starting a company is hard. Finding the customers to pay you as hard
[30:18] His thoughts on the evolution of tech
Marc Andreessen
[02:00] Kerry’s background
[04:20] How Kerry has overcome challenges and made her company stand out
[08:05] How Kerry pivoted during the COVID-19 pandemic
[12:20] Kerry’s approach to changes in buyer behavior and identifying profitable markets
[15:10] The importance of having a marketing tech stack and what Kerry has in her marketing tech stack
[19:35] Why Kerry thinks the BDR should report to marketing instead of sales
[22:30] How Kerry unwinds
