Peter Gassner's guest appearances

Peter Gassner

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Chetan Puttagunta

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Jeff Lawson

Ralph Lauren

Jeff Bezos

Garry Tan

Todd Olson

Ben Uretsky

Brad Feld

Rahul Vohra

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We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time — Zoom and Veeva Systems — to understand how they grew to billions of dollars in revenue (and tens of billions in market cap) on very, very little capital invested. With the fundraising environment changing rapidly, we couldn’t think of a better topic to discuss or better sources of wisdom for founders, operators and investors all to learn from. Very special thanks to Jake Saper and our friends at Emergence Capital for inviting us and putting this conversation together at their 2022 CEO Summit! Sponsor: https://acquired.fm/zoominfo This episode has video! You can watch it on YouTube. Links:  Peter’s great Medium blog   ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

We sit down with the CEO founders of two of the most capital efficient success stories of all time — Zoom and Veeva Systems — to understand how they grew to billions of dollars in revenue (and tens of billions in market cap) on very, very little capital invested. With the fundraising environment changing rapidly, we couldn’t think of a better topic to discuss or better sources of wisdom for founders, operators and investors all to learn from. Very special thanks to Jake Saper and our friends at Emergence Capital for inviting us and putting this conversation together at their 2022 CEO Summit! Sponsor: <a href="https://acquired.fm/zoominfo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://acquired.fm/zoominfo</a> This episode has video! You can watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/AcquiredFM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">on YouTube</a>. Links: <ul> <li><a href="https://medium.com/@peter.gassner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter’s great Medium blog</a> </li> </ul> ‍Note: Acquired hosts and guests may hold assets discussed in this episode. This podcast is not investment advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. You should do your own research and make your own independent decisions when considering any financial transactions.

Capital-Efficient Growth (with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan & Veeva CEO Peter Gassner)

Veev

Listen to any earnings call on demand with the Borsa Earnings Call mobile app now on the App Store. Download here: bit.ly/FreeQuarterlyEarningsCalls Welcome to Earnings Season. Our goal is to make listening to earnings calls easier. We upload relevant and newsworthy earnings calls for easy listening. To request a company's earnings call, email borsaHQ@gmail.com. This podcast episode is Veeva Systems' Q2 2019 earnings call. Listen to Peter Gassner discuss his company's performance.About Earnings Season:Earnings Season posts relevant earnings calls for an easy listening experience. Email borsahq@gmail.com to request a company.

Listen to any earnings call on demand with the Borsa Earnings Call mobile app now on the App Store. Download here: <a href="http://bit.ly/FreeQuarterlyEarningsCalls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bit.ly/FreeQuarterlyEarningsCalls</a> Welcome to Earnings Season. Our goal is to make listening to earnings calls easier. We upload relevant and newsworthy earnings calls for easy listening. To request a company's earnings call, email borsaHQ@gmail.com. This podcast episode is Veeva Systems' Q2 2019 earnings call. Listen to Peter Gassner discuss his company's performance. About Earnings Season: Earnings Season posts relevant earnings calls for an easy listening experience. Email borsahq@gmail.com to request a company.

Veeva Systems (VEEV) Q2 2019 Earnings Call - Peter Gassner

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Peter Gassner is the Founder &amp; CEO @ Veeva Systems, the industry cloud for life science systems. With just $4m in capital raised, Peter has taken Veeva to almost $500m in ARR and a prominent force in the rising tide of enterprise SaaS. As for Peter, prior to Veeva, Peter was a Senior Vice President of Technology at Salesforce where he experienced the successful IPO of the company and their rise into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry. Before Salesforce, Peter was with PeopleSoft for 9 years where he led a team of 450 professionals to support PeopleSoft’s technology platform. I do also want to say a big thank you to Jason Lemkin for the intro to Peter today without which the episode would not have been possible. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:  How did Peter make the move from Salesforce to founding one of the leaders in SaaS, Veeva? Why did Peter not want to be CEO in the beginning? What was the catalyst for his changing mindset? How has view of CEOship evolved over the Veeva journey? How does Peter assess the attractiveness of a market? What are the 2 questions Peter asks before going into a market? Is it wrong to move into smaller adjacent markets? How does Peter assess the suitability of potential board members? What does he mean when he says all founders should use the ‘grocery store rule’?   What is required to close 7 figure enterprise deals? How can sales teams look to build this relationship with large co’s in a natural and non-transactional way?  If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin Harry Stebbings SaaStr

<a href="https://www.veeva.com/leadership/#peter-gassner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Gassner</a> is the Founder &amp; CEO @ <a href="https://www.veeva.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Veeva Systems</a>, the industry cloud for life science systems. With just $4m in capital raised, Peter has taken Veeva to almost $500m in ARR and a prominent force in the rising tide of enterprise SaaS. As for Peter, prior to Veeva, Peter was a Senior Vice President of Technology at Salesforce where he experienced the successful IPO of the company and their rise into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry. Before Salesforce, Peter was with PeopleSoft for 9 years where he led a team of 450 professionals to support PeopleSoft’s technology platform. I do also want to say a big thank you to Jason Lemkin for the intro to Peter today without which the episode would not have been possible. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: <ul> <li>How did Peter make the move from Salesforce to founding one of the leaders in SaaS, Veeva?</li> <li>Why did Peter not want to be CEO in the beginning? What was the catalyst for his changing mindset? How has view of CEOship evolved over the Veeva journey?</li> <li>How does Peter assess the attractiveness of a market? What are the 2 questions Peter asks before going into a market? Is it wrong to move into smaller adjacent markets?</li> <li>How does Peter assess the suitability of potential board members? What does he mean when he says all founders should use the ‘grocery store rule’?  </li> <li>What is required to close 7 figure enterprise deals? How can sales teams look to build this relationship with large co’s in a natural and non-transactional way?</li> </ul> If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: <a href="https://twitter.com/jasonlk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jason Lemkin</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harry Stebbings</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/saastr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SaaStr</a>

SaaStr 108: Growing To $500m In ARR & How To Hit 7 Figure Sales with Veeva Systems Founder, Peter Gassner