The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

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Demand Generation

Growth

Prolific entrepreneur and investor, Arjun Sethi on overcoming the challenges of scale

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.

Episode Outline

[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


Arjun's Inspirations:

Ryan Breslow

Marc Andreessen

Peter Thiel


Connect with Arjun

Twitter

LinkedIn

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode Outline

[04:39] Nate’s background

[07:16] How does one focus on team building, service delivery, customer experience?

[10:13] The ability to build a revenue engine that works with the product engine.

[11:18] Understanding marketing and sales channels as your platforms

[12:04] What to look for inside of an eCommerce transaction funnel or inside of a marketplace

[14:34] What could also serve as instrumentation panel for success

[16:35] How to ensure strategic direction is implemented

[17:04] The art of balancing competing priorities

[19:22] Use empirical evidence to decide stages of your opportunity funnel.

[20:19] Moving from discovery of that into something predictable, repeatable, and scalable.

[23:19] Begin the experiment for the best customer experience


Nate's inspirations

Brian Balfour

Barret Foster

Damon Schechter


Connect with Nate

LinkedIn

Twitter

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