Many companies claim they’re a rocketship—but few mean it literally. As a young child growing up in New Zealand, Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab, spent a lot of time stargazing. His fascination in space inspired a passion-driven career of building a billion-dollar rocket company. Today, Rocket Lab touts the highest launch success rate of any rocket company in history—and was the first private company in the southern hemisphere to go to space. In this conversation, he shares founder lessons on how ...
Jul 07, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Failure. It's no fun, but it's a part of life — and big failures can often be the springboard to even bigger successes. That's why we're launching Wish I Knew, a new show from Bessemer Venture Partners about the revelatory, life-changing, "a-ha" moments that founders, CEOs and leaders discover along their business journeys and why taking risks leads to growth. Season 1 premiered on November 14th, so tune in.
Jan 02, 2023•27 min
Daniel Dines is the co-founder and CEO of UiPath, a leading provider of enterprise automation software. Dines started UiPath in 2005 with the goal of building a solution that could help humans reduce the time and stress that come from menial, administrative business tasks. Today, Dines’ vision is to make software robots, powered by computer vision and AI, as common as PCs in the workplace. He not only graduated from the Cloud 100 list in 2021, but also did so with record-breaking success in its ...
Aug 06, 2021•32 min•Ep. 16
In this final episode of this special micro season of Cloud 100 conversations, we’re highlighting the rising stars of the cloud industry and the ways in which Millennial and Gen Z entrepreneurs are approaching company building with fresh eyes and unique values. In this conversation, we hear the founding stories of Baron Davis, former NBA allstar and CEO of Baron Davis Enterprises , Elizabeth Zalman, CEO of StrongDM , and Yonas Beshawred, CEO of Stackshare and what motivates them to build new sol...
Dec 17, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Welcome back to Cloud Giants in a special micro season featuring the incredible conversations we had with top CEOs at this year’s Cloud 100 virtual summit. Edith Harbaugh, CEO of LaunchDarkly, Yancey Spruill, CEO of DigitalOcean, and Dave MacJannet, CEO of HashiCorp, come together to discuss how their companies serve the global developer community, the strategies they’ve implemented to earn the trust of developers who use their products, and the stories behind how organizations and the world hav...
Dec 17, 2020•24 min•Season 2Ep. 4
For any leader that has helped a company go public they know one thing is true: The IPO isn’t the finish line—it’s a new beginning. In this conversation, Pierre Naude, CEO of nCino, Therese Tucker, CEO of BlackLine, and Zander Lurie, CEO of SurveyMonkey share what they wish they knew before leading their company through the transition of going private to public, and the leadership advice they’d offer emerging cloud leaders today. To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants...
Dec 17, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 3
In this special episode from Cloud 100, we’re talking about how the go-to-market strategies of B2B SaaS companies have evolved over the years, as more companies successfully scale at breakneck speeds. In this conversation, Karen Peacock, CEO of Intercom, Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, and Manny Medina, CEO of Outreach, discuss the various models of GTM success as cloud companies build, grow, and scale. Plus they share frameworks and advice to leaders on the decisions they navigate in order to ali...
Dec 17, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 2
As we all know, today’s leaders are the drivers of tomorrow’s innovations but they also play a large role in supporting social movements, philanthropy, and giving back to build a better tomorrow. At Cloud 100, we heard what the new guard of tech increasingly wants as told through the stories of four CEOs: Stephen Curry, CEO of SC30, Inc. and athlete for the Golden State Warriors, Eric Yuan, CEO of Zoom , Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake , and Jennifer Tejada, CEO of PagerDuty . In this conversat...
Dec 17, 2020•32 min•Season 2Ep. 1
As we close out the year, I wanted to bring you a special micro season featuring some of the conversations we had at this year’s Cloud 100 2020 Summit. In these five episodes, you’ll hear from top CEOs on topics ranging from what matters to the new guard of tech, how developer platforms will run the world, what makes millennials and Gen Z approach entrepreneurship differently, and so much more. To learn more, go to: https://www.bvp.com/atlas/cloud-giants...
Dec 17, 2020•43 sec
In the tenth episode of Cloud Giants, we have Scott Farquhar, the co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian. At a roughly $50 billion dollar market cap, they’re not only the pride of Australian tech, but one of the flag bearers for cloud and developer platforms globally. Millions of users globally rely on Atlassian products every day for improving software development, project management, collaboration, and code quality. We dive into Scott’s story of Atlassian’s founding, the leadership insights he’s l...
Aug 13, 2020•55 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Today we’re here with Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom. Especially in the age of COVID-19 and remote work, hundreds of millions of people have used Zoom, the company delivering frictionless video communication. In many ways, he’s built a platform that shapes a generation. I’m thrilled to have Eric here today to share the story of this epic journey and how he’s built the company that so many people depend on to stay connected at work and in our personal lives. Key takeaways from this episod...
Jul 30, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Today we’re here with the one and only Therese Tucker — she’s the CEO and founder of BlackLine, the enterprise SaaS company that helps businesses, like Coca Cola, EBay, Nasdaq and more, automate accounting. Blackline was a leader in the first wave of the cloud movement, founded in 2001, and went public in 2016. Key takeaways from this episode include: The problems money can’t solve when creating a new market: “The reality is that creating a new market is a fairly slow process, no matter how much...
Jul 14, 2020•43 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Todd McKinnon is the CEO and co-founder of Okta, the trusted platform to secure every identity in an organization, including your workforce and customers. If you happen to work for or patron one of Okta’s thousands of customers, including T Mobile, Major League Baseball, Albertsons, then you’ve definitely come across Okta since they power the single sign on solution and much more. In this episode, Byron gets into the nitty gritty of Okta’s journey and Todd’s role in bringing this company to its ...
Jun 18, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Jennifer Tejada is the CEO of PagerDuty. In a world that’s always on, PagerDuty is the leading platform for real-time operations for IT and DevOps. In this conversation, Jennifer discusses the early days, how she was recruited to become an outside CEO and the path toward PagerDuty’s successful IPO. Plus, Ethan Kurzweil, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, joins the conversation and talks about how he led the Series B investment in PagerDuty in 2014. Key takeaways from this episode include: Why...
May 26, 2020•58 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Aaron Levie is the founder and CEO of Box, the cloud content management and file sharing service for businesses. If you work in the modern business world, then you have almost certainly used Box to save and share documents. In this episode, Byron and Aaron talk about how he and his co-founders first built the company in 2004, why they decided to serve enterprises over consumers, and insights on building an a C-Suite, culture, and transitioning into being a CEO of a public company. Top highlights...
May 12, 2020•47 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Dan Springer founded Responsys in 2004 and after a successful exit, he took four years off to be a stay at home dad. In 2017, Dan Springer joined DocuSign as their CEO. In this episode of Cloud Giants, Byron Deeter talks to Dan about transitioning back to work, how to be a good leader, setting boundaries, and how Dan increased DocuSign's value by $14 billion during his time as CEO. Takeaways include: As a leader, be aware of your gender bias: “People make this construct around being a stay-at-ho...
Apr 28, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Join Byron Deeter and Jeremy Levine from Bessemer Venture Partners as they bring together three resilient founders who built their startups during the immediate aftermath of the 2008 Recession. In this conversation, we talk to Jeff Lawson, CEO and co-founder of Twilio, Tobi Lütke, CEO and founder of Shopify, and Ben Silbermann, CEO and co-founder of Pinterest. Key insights include: What inspired Twilio to keep pushing even after they didn’t get any funding in the summer of 2008: “Our customers w...
Apr 14, 2020•1 hr 9 min
Jeff Lawson is the co-founder and CEO of Twilio, founded in 2008. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages. As a customer, anytime you call or text your Uber driver, you are using Twilio! Today Byron will talk with Jeff about his career leading up to founding Twilio, how they built the company and the challenges along the way to their IPO. Insights and key takeaways from Jeff Lawson Internet connection can be the source of...
Mar 30, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Adam Miller is the founder & CEO of Cornerstone OnDemand. He started Cornerstone in 1999 in his one-bedroom apartment to help people realize their professional potential. Under his leadership, Cornerstone has grown to over $500 million in revenue and is one of the largest cloud computing companies in the world. Insights and key takeaways from Adam Miller Perspective is essential with challenging sales cycles and near-death experiences: “We were very bad at sales back then. We had lined up th...
Mar 07, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Bessemer Venture Partners launches a new podcast, Cloud Giants, hosted by Byron Deeter. The show features intimate conversations with entrepreneurs, founders and great leaders who have built world changing cloud platform companies.
Mar 03, 2020•1 min
