The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Rashmi Gopinath, General Partner at B Capital Group on the current market and the rapid acceleration of digital marketing

In this conversation with Rashmi Gopinath, General Partner at B Capital Group, she talks about enterprise software trends and industry benchmarks. Hear about some of the metrics that are dipping, the companies that are transitioning from traditional sales to a sales-assist motion, and how Rashmi keeps herself engaged in the industry.


Episode Outline

[00:36] B Capital Group

[03:01] Surprises in the last 12 months

[06:09] New low metrics

[11:12] Traditional enterprises trying to be a PLG

[13:02] Transitioning from traditional sales to sales-assist

[16:48] What keeps Rashmi energized, interested, and engaged?


Connect with Rashmi

LinkedIn

Twitter

Website


Connect with Matter Made 

Website

LinkedIn (Matter Made)

LinkedIn (Elias Rubel, CEO, Matter Made)

The Demand Efficiency Podcast

Podcast

Audio

Demand Generation

Growth

Episode Outline

[04:39] David’s background

[07:16] Why he decided to focus on sales and then to become a sales manager and help with strategy at a management level

[10:13] How to wrap up with analytics as broad topics that might be the most productive

[11:18] The way having a strategy of some kind is really important, even if it fails to understand that it did fail and why failed and that you need to move somewhere else is really important

[12:04] Ask yourself, are you focusing on a certain industry and emphasizing a certain value proposition?

[14:34] What to focus on when thinking strategically about your customer base and the first customers

[16:35] On developing your strategy based on what you're seeing

[19:22] Frustration around pricing because it's such a key to either unlocking sales or blocking sales and the same goes for how marketing can help support.

[20:19] So many founders think they've got it but sometimes the right thing to do is actually to ask quite a bit more for what you're selling.

[24:30] People are totally willing to be honest, especially if your products adding a lot of value.


David's inspirations:

Jared Hansen

Christy Serrato

Nikhil Jhingan


Connect with David:

LinkedIn

Twitter

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