What's π₯ in Enterprise IT/VC #257
π Story time from Salesforce - how big can they get and how fast π?
As you know, I like reading the tea leaves and learning from investor day presentations and earnings transcripts from the leading enterprise software companies to get a glimpse of the future. Along those lines, one of the best storytellers in the business is Salesforce and their Investor Day 9 days ago did not disappoint.
In fact, investors ate this up as the stock shot up 8% the day after even though they only raised 2022 revenue guidance by 1%. Stories matter! So what is the big story from Salesforce?
The whole theme of the presentation is the New World. If you have time, take a look at the whole deck as it truly lays out the scale of opportunity on the IT spending side for all enterprise software companies. Also I encourage you to watch the Q&A with Bret Taylor, President & COO, who goes deeper and shares whatβs ahead for the future.
Weβre living in a New World and the opportunity is MASSIVE!
HOLY TAM π€―
Product Matters!
Weβre still innovating at a ridiculous pace!
Insanely fast growth for a company of this sizeβ¦
Finally, I would argue that Salesforce has done this better than any public company out there.
Storytelling matters!
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Scaling Startups
Foundersβ¦keep grinding, you see the future better than investors
Pure gold from Scott on what best product leaders do π§΅
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Enterprise Tech
πͺπΌ onboarding developers is still a huge problem at many companies and Iβm excited for Codesee to come out of stealth to help developers get up to a speed a bit faster with mapsβ¦try it out at OSS Port which is helping open source maintainers help contributors get more productive, faster
Itβs out - Matt Turckβs (FirstMark) MAD landscape (ML, AI, Data) - way too many companies here!
Cloud Wars - Cloudflare going after AWS cash cow S3 and Google dropping a bomb by reducing marketplace take rate from 20% to 3% π²
π―ππΌ - must read
Informatica filed S-1, the βintelligent data mgmt βοΈ platformβ - shows a company transitioning from a license, on-prem data infra provider to ββοΈ 1st, data alwaysβ
Markets
130% is still best in class
Amplitude, product analytics platform, goes public via direct listing - also origin story quite interesting as it involved an early pivot - many startups never go in a straight lineβ¦