29: Startup Lessons From Gail Goodman

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- This is an interview with David and Gail Goodman (former CEO of Constant Contact)from 2010. We thought it would be fun to dig in the crates a little bit, and this is a gem -- Gail was the CEO of Contact Contact and really one of the leaders in SaaS, and at the time, David was a first-time startup CEO at Performable. He interviewed Gail at the Momentum Summit at MIT Sloan and talked about building a SaaS company, and how Constant Contact made it through the post-bubble apocalypse to become a publicly traded company and a market leader. Enjoy. PS. Join the community of Seeking Wisdom listeners at seekingwisdom.io and on Twitter @seekingwisdomio. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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0:00.0	Today on Seeking Wisdom, we're going to dig in the crates a little bit.
0:06.0	Digging in the crates?
0:07.2	Yeah, we're back.
0:08.0	We're going to get in the crates.
0:09.0	Let's go.
0:04.8	What are we got for them? So you're not going to hear from either of us today. Well, actually, you're going to hear from you. Six years ago. Six years ago. Yeah, you found, we happen to be talking about someone today, and you came across this interview.
0:21.0	You interviewed Constant Contact's Gail Goodman, who is a SaaS OG. The original SaaS OG. I interviewed her back in
0:29.1	2010, a public company CEO, took it from nothing to something. Just a terrific interview,
0:39.3	and I enjoyed my time with her.
0:41.2	This was a different perspective for you.
0:44.1	This was your first like CEO.
0:46.4	This was performable CEO, D.C., right?
0:49.5	Yeah, this is back in the day, performable CEO, D.C. This is me getting some wisdom from an OG, Gail Goodman.
0:55.7	Awesome.
0:56.3	Enjoy.
0:58.1	With no more ado, I want to turn things over to David Cancel, the founder of Performable,
1:03.5	for his conversation with Gail Goodman, the CEO of Constant Contact.
1:09.4	Thanks, Scott.
1:10.5	Good morning, everyone. How many people here have never used Constant Contact. Thanks, Scott. Good morning, everyone.
1:11.6	How many people here have never used Constant Contact?
1:15.6	There are some.
1:16.6	So for the few of you who don't know Constant Contact, and I've used Constant Contact myself,
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