a16z Podcast: Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
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🗓️ 3 February 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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| 0:00.6 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:01.6 | Welcome to the A6 and Z podcast. I'm Sonal. |
| 0:04.6 | Today's episode continues our Enterprise Go-to-Market podcast series, and the theme of this episode is for founders and product managers to consider the tight relationship between product and go-to-market, one informing the other in boat directions. |
| 0:18.3 | What are the key milestones that go into both and in different phases of |
| 0:21.5 | company building, especially pre-to-post product market fit? The conversation features special guest |
| 0:27.4 | Joti Bunsell, founder and founding CEO of App Dynamics. He's also a co-founder at Unusual |
| 0:32.8 | Ventures and co-founder of Harness. Joining me to interview Bunsell, we have general partner Peter |
| 0:37.4 | Levine, |
| 0:37.9 | who also put out a series of 16 short sales videos for founders, which you can find at A6&Z.com |
| 0:43.6 | slash 16 sales. And then we have A6&Z Enterprise Deal Team partner Satish the Lurie, since he too |
| 0:49.6 | came from App Dynamics, where he was last as senior director of product and growth operations |
| 0:53.6 | pre-sale |
| 0:54.3 | to post-sale. Speaking of, we go beyond the typical discussion of product market fit into the |
| 1:00.0 | concept of product market sales fit, and what that means for product design, to services, |
| 1:05.6 | to pricing and packaging, to product management, and more. But first, we quickly begin with the fundamental shift in mindset for technical founders. |
| 1:14.0 | The first voice you'll hear is Jotis, followed by Sathes, talking about the initial insight |
| 1:18.8 | behind app dynamics, which was acquired by Cisco last year for $3.7 billion the night before |
| 1:25.1 | it was set to go public. |
| 1:26.8 | I was working as an engineer in a company, and this was before the phrase you guys coined on |
| 1:31.4 | software is eating the world. This was 2008, right? But it was clear that software is |
| 1:35.2 | eating the world and to me it's like, okay, if everything is going to be software, |
| 1:39.7 | something goes wrong in software, someone needs good tools to double shoot and fix it. |
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