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Shan Sinha

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Meagen Eisenberg

Michael Litt

Rob Bernshteyn

Patrick Campbell

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Keith Rabois

Warren Buffett

Karen Peacock

Tom Tunguz

Dan Reich

Mamoon Hamid

John Barrows

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Hey everyone! In today's episode, I share the mic with Shan Sinha, founder and CEO of Highfive, a company that sells a video conferencing hardware/software bundle. Tune in to hear Shan discuss his tech journey from Microsoft to Highfive, how much he sold his business DocVerse to Google for (who turned it into Google Drive), the difficulties of building a hardware/software company, and what they did to grow their YoY revenue by 170% from last year to this year.  Click here for show notes and transcript. Leave Some Feedback:  What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a short review here. Subscribe to Growth Everywhere on iTunes. Get the non-iTunes RSS feed  Connect with Eric Siu:  Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @EricSiu 

Hey everyone! In today's episode, I share the mic with Shan Sinha, founder and CEO of Highfive, a company that sells a video conferencing hardware/software bundle. Tune in to hear Shan discuss his tech journey from Microsoft to Highfive, how much he sold his business DocVerse to Google for (who turned it into Google Drive), the difficulties of building a hardware/software company, and what they did to grow their YoY revenue by 170% from last year to this year. <a href="http://growtheverywhere.com/growth-everywhere-interview/shan-sinha-highfive/%20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Click here for show notes and transcript.</a> Leave Some Feedback: <ul> <li>What should I talk about next? Who should I interview? Please let me know on Twitter or in the comments below.</li> <li>Did you enjoy this episode? If so, leave a <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/growth-everywhere/id741544976?mt=2&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">short review here</a>.</li> <li>Subscribe to <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/growth-everywhere/id741544976?mt=2&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Growth Everywhere on iTunes</a>.</li> <li><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/growtheverywhere" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Get the non-iTunes RSS feed</a></li> </ul> Connect with Eric Siu: <ul> <li><a href="https://growtheverywhere.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Growth Everywhere</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.singlegrain.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Single Grain</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/ericosiu" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter @EricSiu</a></li> </ul>

How Shan Sinha Is Tackling the Videoconferencing Space with His Hardware/Software Biz Highfive

Success doesn’t usually come along a simple path, and that was definitely true for Shan Sinha. He was raised by a single mom in Texas, fell in love with technology, went to M.I.T., dropped out to do a startup, and …   Failed.    He went back to M.I.T. But of course that’s not the end of the story, or he wouldn’t be on this podcast. He got a job at Microsoft, left to start another company, and this time struck gold – by eventually selling that company to Google in 2010. Now he’s the founder and CEO of yet another business – Highfive, a video conferencing outfit that’s breaking new ground.      I don’t like straight lines. My career hasn’t traveled in one, and chances are, yours hasn’t either. So I love when I get to explore the stories of people who started out at a disadvantage. Or struck out a few times before hitting that home run. That, I can learn from.  

Success doesn’t usually come along a simple path, and that was definitely true for Shan Sinha. He was raised by a single mom in Texas, fell in love with technology, went to M.I.T., dropped out to do a startup, and …  Failed.  He went back to M.I.T. But of course that’s not the end of the story, or he wouldn’t be on this podcast. He got a job at Microsoft, left to start another company, and this time struck gold – by eventually selling that company to Google in 2010. Now he’s the founder and CEO of yet another business – Highfive, a video conferencing outfit that’s breaking new ground.    I don’t like straight lines. My career hasn’t traveled in one, and chances are, yours hasn’t either. So I love when I get to explore the stories of people who started out at a disadvantage. Or struck out a few times before hitting that home run. That, I can learn from.

58 - Shan Sinha, Highfive CEO: An Entrepreneur's Winding Path to Success

Shan Sinha is the Founder &amp; CEO @ Highfive, the startup that quite simply makes insanely simple video conferencing. They have raised over $45m in funding from some of the best in the business including a16z, Lightspeed General Catalyst and Founder Collective and then individuals including Aaron Levie, Drew Houston and Marc Benioff. Prior to Highfive, Shan was the Group Product Manager for Google Apps for Enterprise, which he joined following Google’s 2010 acquisition of his prior company, DocVerse, which later became part of Google Drive. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn:  How Shan made his way from being one of the foundations of Google Drive to changing the world of video conferencing with Highfive? As a successful second time founder, how has Shan’s thesis around customer success changed? When is the right time to hire your first CS personnel? What profile should those first CS hires have? How does this vary to differing profiles in the scaling journey? Logos or expansion? What does Shan believe is crucial in the early days of SaaS scaling? What metric is the true determinant of whether a customer is attaining consistent value from your product? Why does Shan believe that not everything has to scale from Day 1? What are the benefits of implementing a model that is unable to scale? What does this show and teach the startup? How does Shan think about capturing the perfect customer experience? Why does Shan believe that payback period is the single most important metric for SaaS startups? How does Shan think about payback and margins when selling to the traditionally smaller ACV marker of SMB? What are the challenges in doing so?  60 Second SaaStr  When is a stretch VP a stretch too far? What does Shan know now that he wishes had known when he started Highfive? Challenges of doing both hardware and software simultaneously?  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 Shan Sinha

<a href="https://twitter.com/shansinha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shan Sinha</a> is the Founder &amp; CEO @ <a href="https://highfive.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Highfive</a>, the startup that quite simply makes insanely simple video conferencing. They have raised over $45m in funding from some of the best in the business including a16z, Lightspeed General Catalyst and Founder Collective and then individuals including Aaron Levie, Drew Houston and Marc Benioff. Prior to Highfive, Shan was the Group Product Manager for Google Apps for Enterprise, which he joined following Google’s 2010 acquisition of his prior company, DocVerse, which later became part of Google Drive. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: <ul> <li>How Shan made his way from being one of the foundations of Google Drive to changing the world of video conferencing with Highfive?</li> <li>As a successful second time founder, how has Shan’s thesis around customer success changed? When is the right time to hire your first CS personnel? What profile should those first CS hires have? How does this vary to differing profiles in the scaling journey?</li> <li>Logos or expansion? What does Shan believe is crucial in the early days of SaaS scaling? What metric is the true determinant of whether a customer is attaining consistent value from your product?</li> <li>Why does Shan believe that not everything has to scale from Day 1? What are the benefits of implementing a model that is unable to scale? What does this show and teach the startup? How does Shan think about capturing the perfect customer experience?</li> <li>Why does Shan believe that payback period is the single most important metric for SaaS startups? How does Shan think about payback and margins when selling to the traditionally smaller ACV marker of SMB? What are the challenges in doing so?</li> </ul> 60 Second SaaStr <ol> <li>When is a stretch VP a stretch too far?</li> <li>What does Shan know now that he wishes had known when he started Highfive?</li> <li>Challenges of doing both hardware and software simultaneously?</li> </ol> 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> <a href="https://twitter.com/shansinha" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Shan Sinha</a>

SaaStr 147: Why Payback Period Is The Critical Metric, Why There Is No "No Man's Land In SaaS Pricing" & When Is A Stretch VP, A Stretch Too Far with Shan Sinha, Founder & CEO @ Highfive

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