Category Archives: ECL

Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig: The objective of pricing is to become less wrong over time

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In 2017, Ironclad founder and CEO Jason Boehmig was looking to raise a Series A. As a former lawyer, Boehmig had a specific process for fundraising and an ultimate goal of finding the right investors for his company. Part of Boehmig’s process was to ask people in the San Francisco Bay Area about their favorite […] Continue reading Ironclad’s Jason Boehmig: The objective of pricing is to become less wrong over time→

Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative

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This week on Extra Crunch Live, the duo explained how they came together for Grafana’s Series A — and eventually, its Series B. We’ve included highlights as well as the full video of our conversation. Continue reading Lightspeed’s Gaurav Gupta and Grafana’s Raj Dutt discuss pitch decks, pricing and how to nail the narrative→

Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on ‘shifting left’ in cybersecurity and the future of enterprise startups

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Last week was a busy week, what with an election in Myanmar and all (well, and the United States, I guess). So perhaps you were glued to your TV or smartphone, and missed out on our conversation with Asheem Chandna, a long-time partner at Greylock who has invested in enterprise and cybersecurity startups for nearly […] Continue reading Greylock’s Asheem Chandna on ‘shifting left’ in cybersecurity and the future of enterprise startups→

Emergence’s Jason Green thinks some of the tech backlash is justified, but the B2B opportunities still outweigh the challenges

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Jason Green, co-founder and partner at Emergence, is one of the leading VCs investing in enterprise startups at the moment. But even with the focus on B2B, many of their companies have become household names — Zoom, Yammer, Box and Salesforce among them. Now, we’re all living in a climate where everything has been turned […] Continue reading Emergence’s Jason Green thinks some of the tech backlash is justified, but the B2B opportunities still outweigh the challenges→

Vintage Instrument Gets Modern Replacement for Unobtainium Parts

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One of the best parts about Hackaday is how much you learn from the projects that people tackle, especially when they are repairs on old gear with unknown failure modes and potentially multiple problems. By the same token, the worst part about Hackaday is seeing what other people are capable …read more

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Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra says recession is the ‘perfect time’ to be aggressive for well-capitalized startups

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Email is one of those things that no one likes but that we’re all forced to use. Superhuman, founded by Rahul Vohra, aims to help everyone get to inbox zero. Launched in 2017, Superhuman charges $30 per month and is still in invite-only mode with more than 275,000 people on the waitlist. That’s by design, […] Continue reading Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra says recession is the ‘perfect time’ to be aggressive for well-capitalized startups→

Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’

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Box CEO Aaron Levie has been working to change the software world for 15 years, but the pandemic has accelerated the move to cloud services much faster than anyone imagined. As he pointed out yesterday in an Extra Crunch Live interview, who would have thought three months ago that businesses like yoga and cooking classes […] Continue reading Aaron Levie: ‘We have way too many manual processes in businesses’→

Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg shares his COVID-19 strategy and tactics

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This week, Verizon Communications CEO Hans Vestberg joined us for an episode of Extra Crunch Live. Vestberg is leading the company through the midst of one its biggest rollouts to date with the push into 5G connectivity. In our discussion, he spoke about how he’s managing the organization during this global crisis, his thoughts on […] Continue reading Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg shares his COVID-19 strategy and tactics→