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Pietro Bezza

@pietrobezza

Founder ➡️ VC
Backing product founders since 2012. Led seed in @citymapper, @typeform @TrueLayer @HeyOyster @GetPurpleDot @Plain @AikidoSecurity @

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3. Three Criteria for Reserves Deployment We look at 3 things: Do I still believe in the market? Do I still believe in the team? Do I still believe in the valuation? One of our best companies went from $15M to $500M valuation But it didn’t have enough traction so we didn’t

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Welcome to our new podcast 'Where Shall We Meet' with your hosts Natascha McElhone and Omid Ashtari. The perfect audio diet for shallow polymaths! You can find us listed in your favourite podcast app. Here a medley of our upcoming episodes. open.spotify.com/episode/1ToTLW…

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BI is the only layer in the new modern stack without a new multi-billion leader and Steep is building the product to win it. Thrilled to partner with Johan Baltzar and Nino Höglund, leading a $4m seed round. Find out more in my post pietrobezza.medium.com/investing-in-s…

Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You might have missed it. But this was a great week in SaaS. A great week: - OneStream IPOs to a $5 Billion Valuation at 10x ARR, growing 34% at $500m ARR. No slowdown here. - Clio raises for legal tech at $3 Billion. Took 14 years to get to $100m ARR, but then doubles to

You might have missed it.  But this was a great week in SaaS.   A great week:

- OneStream IPOs to a $5 Billion Valuation at 10x ARR, growing 34% at $500m ARR.  No slowdown here.

- Clio raises for legal tech at $3 Billion.  Took 14 years to get to $100m ARR, but then doubles to
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🤔🤔"The widespread belief is that only 10x annual growth is worth chasing, and that this is only available in the AI application world' newsletter.angularventures.com/p/puzzles-ai via Angular Ventures

Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Founder mode" I worry will be completely misunderstood in sales You can't scale sales without a Head of Sales / VP of Sales There are no real efficiencies of scale in a sales-led model Ultimately, to add +$10m of ARR, you'll need 10-20 sales execs You can manage them at

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💥Thrilled to welcome Molten Ventures to our Fund I, as they’ve acquired 97% of the fund’s positions. Secondary is an excellent way for LPs to fully realize their gains, w/o divesting the portfolio. We’ll continue to manage Fund I with Typeform and Soldo ://bit.ly/3Buu2Yc

Andreas Klinger 🦾 (@andreasklinger) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imho: AI (LLMs) replace glue jobs. Most jobs in the corporate world are glue jobs. Glueing things together from different areas. Most are transformations/translations - eg translate from X to Y. This is where LLMs come from and are great at. Take a long book - create a short

Hugo Amsellem (@hugoamsellem) 's Twitter Profile Photo

15/ Want to dive deeper into this thesis? Read the full article here: hugo.pm/p/consumerplus And if you're building in this space, my DMs are open.

Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So a big theme of 2023 and 2024 was “work-life balance”.  Moderation in growth, in spend, and in time spent on work and the journey.  😄 That a start-up maybe growing 40% but that is profitable might be better than a start-up growing 400% but addicted to venture capital. 🤽‍♀️

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I'm really happy to say that Plain now powers support for Granola - one of the most remarkable, and most loved productivity tools I've seen in a very long time. Few products go from launch to a daily essential this fast. When you see it as both partner and user, you know

I'm really happy to say that Plain now powers support for <a href="/meetgranola/">Granola</a> - one of the most remarkable, and most loved productivity tools I've seen in a very long time.

Few products go from launch to a daily essential this fast. When you see it as both partner and user, you know
Jason ✨👾SaaStr 2025 is May 13-15✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Within a year, an AI sales rep will join every human sales rep on every Zoom and call 🤖 95% of “I don’t knows” and “Uh I’ll get back to you” will be gone Within a year, an AI BDR will answer all inbound sales questions 🤖98% of humans setting up appointments with AEs will be