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Frank Slootman

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The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

If you started winning in pharmaceutical and banking and others, other big verticals, I think it starts to get more applicable and it stretches out more. Who are your customers, the source and quality of the revenue? Have you been through a renewal cycle yet? Is a big question that a lot of investors miss. I'm looking for, have they gone through a renewal cycle? What happened?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

Did the ACV grow at that renewal? Did they add more product to it? Or did it shrink or not renew?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

Did the ACV grow at that renewal? Did they add more product to it? Or did it shrink or not renew?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

Did the ACV grow at that renewal? Did they add more product to it? Or did it shrink or not renew?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

so you start seeing an nrr right so even in year one at service now when we sold a contract it could be a million dollar contract we never really fully sized what the customer could be because they didn't even know they were expecting it to be a certain number of users what have you what happened service down which it got implemented more people would start showing up to use it it would grow so six months after the go live of the system we used to see 20 to 40 percent increase in acv size

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

so you start seeing an nrr right so even in year one at service now when we sold a contract it could be a million dollar contract we never really fully sized what the customer could be because they didn't even know they were expecting it to be a certain number of users what have you what happened service down which it got implemented more people would start showing up to use it it would grow so six months after the go live of the system we used to see 20 to 40 percent increase in acv size

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

so you start seeing an nrr right so even in year one at service now when we sold a contract it could be a million dollar contract we never really fully sized what the customer could be because they didn't even know they were expecting it to be a certain number of users what have you what happened service down which it got implemented more people would start showing up to use it it would grow so six months after the go live of the system we used to see 20 to 40 percent increase in acv size

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I'm looking for something like that. Did they have this second product that came out? Was it welcomed in the market? If you didn't have a great first experience, you're not going to say yes to the second product. There are ways, even in a multi-year relationship, to start seeing upticks in revenue from those customers.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I'm looking for something like that. Did they have this second product that came out? Was it welcomed in the market? If you didn't have a great first experience, you're not going to say yes to the second product. There are ways, even in a multi-year relationship, to start seeing upticks in revenue from those customers.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I'm looking for something like that. Did they have this second product that came out? Was it welcomed in the market? If you didn't have a great first experience, you're not going to say yes to the second product. There are ways, even in a multi-year relationship, to start seeing upticks in revenue from those customers.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I think we're in the process of figuring that out. Some of them are re-accelerating the growth right now. So that's one category. Those should be fine. I really believe some of those are going to come out really, really good and they'll be better for this journey. There's a few others where, yeah, I'm not so sure.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I think we're in the process of figuring that out. Some of them are re-accelerating the growth right now. So that's one category. Those should be fine. I really believe some of those are going to come out really, really good and they'll be better for this journey. There's a few others where, yeah, I'm not so sure.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I think we're in the process of figuring that out. Some of them are re-accelerating the growth right now. So that's one category. Those should be fine. I really believe some of those are going to come out really, really good and they'll be better for this journey. There's a few others where, yeah, I'm not so sure.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I would honestly say they're probably worth more as cash than they are as independent companies. And some of them have made the choice to refund the cash back to the investors, sell off the assets. There's a couple out there that that's happened to recently. And then there's a few others that maybe they'll use the cash to come up with the second or third act, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I would honestly say they're probably worth more as cash than they are as independent companies. And some of them have made the choice to refund the cash back to the investors, sell off the assets. There's a couple out there that that's happened to recently. And then there's a few others that maybe they'll use the cash to come up with the second or third act, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

I would honestly say they're probably worth more as cash than they are as independent companies. And some of them have made the choice to refund the cash back to the investors, sell off the assets. There's a couple out there that that's happened to recently. And then there's a few others that maybe they'll use the cash to come up with the second or third act, right?

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

They've got enough if that founder has the fortitude and wants to continue on that journey. A lot of the founders are like, boy, this is hard. I'm not so sure.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

They've got enough if that founder has the fortitude and wants to continue on that journey. A lot of the founders are like, boy, this is hard. I'm not so sure.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

They've got enough if that founder has the fortitude and wants to continue on that journey. A lot of the founders are like, boy, this is hard. I'm not so sure.

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
20VC: Scaling ServiceNow to $5BN in ARR | Leadership Lessons from Doug Leone, Frank Slootman and Bill McDermott | VC Value Add: Is it Real and Why the Worst VCs are "Seagull VCs"

Yeah, I can see the logic of that. I think it's rare that your first product's a billion dollar product on its own. There are some.