The full conversation.
Pablo
0:00
Yoav,
welcome
to
the
show.
Yoav
0:01
Thanks
for
having
me.
Pablo
0:03
Look,
just
looking
through
the
profile
of
Walnut,
I
mean,
you
started
right
after
the
pandemic
started
in
August
2020,
if
I'm
not
mistaken.
Then
about
a
year
later,
mid-2021,
you'd
raised
a
$50
million
series
A,
which
is
spectacularly
fast.
I
think
most
founders
dream
of
getting
from
zero
to
one
that
quickly.
That's
really
what
I
want
to
do
here
is
just
dive
in
as
deep
as
possible.
We're
all
about
zero
to
one
here.
Welcome
to
the
Product
Market
Fit
Show,
brought
to
you
by
Mistral,
a
seed
stage
firm
based
in
Canada.
I'm
Pablo.
I'm
a
founder
turned
VC.
My
goal
is
to
help
early-stage
founders,
like
you,
find
product
market
fit.
I
want
to
dive
in
to
right
as
you
started
and
then
everything
that
you
did
until
you
really
had
product
market
fit.
Maybe
with
that
said,
I
know
before
Walnut,
you
had
another
startup,
I
think
it
was
called
Ranky.
Maybe
we
can
start
there.
If
you
could,
just
tell
us
a
little
bit
about
what
that
was
about
and
then
what
happened
in
the
years
between
that
Before Walnut
Pablo
0:59
and
Walnut.
Yoav
1:06
First
of
all,
it
was
a
series
B,
not
a
series
A,
but
who
remembers,
right?
It's
been
a
while.
Yeah,
so
I
had
a
couple
of
companies
in
the
past.
One
of
them
was
one
of
the
first
companies
globally
to
help
startups
with
anything
growth,
anything
marketing,
anything
go
to
market.
It
was
a
long
time
ago.
Started
off
in
Tel
Aviv,
but
grew
to
places
like
London
and
New
York
and
other
locations
where
most
of
it
started
as
raise
a
seed
bound,
ended
up
using
our
services
for
doing
something
with
their
initial
funding
and
helping
them
go
zero
to
one.
Some
of
them
are
unicorn
companies
today
and
we
were
the
first
team
that
helped
them
scale.
That
was
probably
12
or
13
years
ago.
Then
I
also
was
building
a
startup
right
before
this
one
that
was
using
AI
and
that
was
before
it
was
cool.
It
was
around
2017.
It
was
building
out
AI
models
for
trying
to
help
spot
the
bad
guys
online,
people
that
stalk
children,
people
that
are
bullying
kids,
people
that
are
trying
to
meet
kids
via
all
kinds
of
social
networks.
We
had
a
pretty
sophisticated
data
science
ability
to
do
that.
We
raised
about
a
$15
million
seed
round
it
was.
All
in
all,
it
was
a
great
experience.
With
all
that,
I
have
to
say,
Walnut
was
the
fastest
company
I've
built
to
date.
Pablo
2:48
Maybe
just
walk
us
through
the
origin
story
of
Walnut.
People
have
been
doing
demos
for
as
long
as
I
can
remember.
For
you
to
try,
and
let's
say,
crack
that
market
with
something
that's
quite
different,
where
does
that
idea
even
come
from?
Origin Story
Yoav
3:07
What's
cool
about
this
idea
is,
if
it
wasn't
me,
it
would've
come
to
anyone,
right?
You
try
to
show
a
product
when
you
work
for
a
B2B
company,
everything
breaks.
There's
always
a
problem
to
customize
the
experience.
The
buyer
will
end
up
getting
screwed
with
a
really,
really
generic
sales
experience
and
they
end
up
not
wanting
to
buy.
You
mentioned
the
wait
list
in
the
call
we
had
before
the
recording.
It's
just
interviewing
our
target
audience
and
grow
a
wait
list
of
VP
of
sales
that
wanted
to
let
their
salespeople
own
demos,
create
their
own
demos,
not
needing
to
talk
to
anyone
from
RND
product
or
design
to
create
sales
demos.
Then
we
just
interviewed
VP
of
sales,
CROs
from
global
companies.
The
response
was
insane
and
they
started
piling
up
in
our
waiting
list,
and
only
then
I
felt
comfortable
enough
to
go
out
and
raise
the
seed
round.
Pablo
4:05
Where
did
the
idea
even
come
from
in
the
first
place?
Was
this
a
frustration
that
you
had
personally
with
demos
or
was
it
more
a
market
analysis
thing?
How
did
you
even
get
there
to
even
start
doing,
let's
say,
customer
discovery?
Yoav
4:15
The
initial
–
well,
personally,
for
me,
the
first
time
that
I
encountered
how
crappy
sales
demo
was
when
I
had
that
marketing
company
just
told
you
about
where
I
saw
tech
startups
spending
millions
just
to
get
all
kinds
of
[unclear]
to
schedule
the
demo
or
to
see
what
it's
about
or
try
and
win
them
over
the
competition.
Then
whenever
they
tried
showing
the
product,
something
ended
up
breaking.
It
was
a
really
long
time
ago.
I
just
carried
that
thought.
My
co-founder
was
a
tech
leader
on
the
side
of
that
was
selling
software
to
enterprise
companies
or
on
the
side
of
enterprise
companies
buying
software
from
small
startups,
and
every
demo
that
he
has
experienced
has
been
completely
broken.
We
just
took
that
thought
in
mind.
We
interviewed
the
proper
target
audience.
Honestly,
when
you
just
start
turning
a
VP
of
sales
or
a
chief
revenue
officer,
your
salespeople
will
not
have
to
rely
on
anyone
from
the
back-end.
It
was
just
a
shut
up
and
take
my
money
type
of
moment.
We
built
a
very
unappealing
MVP
where
you
could
just
take
one
screen
off
your
entire
SaaS
platform,
customize
it
in
a
drag
and
drop
way,
a
little
bit
a
week’s
editor,
just
customize
data
and
it's
of
course
not
connected
to
your
back-end
anymore,
so
it's
not
going
to
break
or
it's
not
going
to
freeze
even
if
you
have
a
major
demo
in
an
hour.
That
was
the
MVP
also
that
we
build
out.
Pablo
5:47
Is
that
the
main
value
prop
at
the
beginning
was
just
something
that
you
could
rely
on
or
was
it
–
because
today
you
have
different
value
props
around
the
number
of
demos
that
you
can
do,
the
speed
of
getting
a
demo
done
and
where
you
can
maybe
embed
demos
and
these
things.
What
was
the
original
main
value
prop
really
at
the
beginning?
The first value prop
Yoav
6:03
It
was
actually
twofold.
I
know
most
of
the
online
material
would
say
you
need
to
have
one
when
you're
at
MVP,
but
we
had
two
value
props
for
the
same
MVP.
One
of
them
was,
it's
not
connected
to
your
back-end
anymore.
It's
not
going
to
crash,
which
happens
a
lot
during
demos.
The
second
thing
is
you
can
drag
and
drop
your
way
into
something
customizable
that
contains
your
client's
data.
We
still
didn't
raise
money
at
that
point.
I
think
it
was
still
pre-seed.
We
didn't
spend
a
lot
of
time
to
build
out
a
sophisticated
MVP
that
can
carry
a
lot
of
value
props.
It
was
just
all
derived
from
the
same
feature.
Pablo
6:45
How
did
you
go
about,
I
mean,
maybe
just
walk
me
through
the
customer
interview
process
because
I
always
find
that’s
really
important.
How
many
of
those
did
you
do
and
how
did
you
go
about
getting
people
to
even
give
you
the
time
when
you
didn't
even
really
have
a
product
ready
to
sell?
The Customer Interview Process
Yoav
7:00
I
think
what
played
out
for
our
benefit
was
timing.
It
was
the
first
or
second
lockdown
of
COVID
worldwide
and
salespeople
had
to
adjust
to
a
new
reality
where
they
cannot
fly
out
and
meet
someone
face
to
face.
Then
if
you
just
have
to
open
your
laptop
and
show
a
demo,
even
if
it
breaks,
you're
going
to
make
a
joke
or
talk
about
the
weather
and
there's
all
ways
to
go
around
that.
If
everything
went
remote
on
the
same
day
globally,
then
you
have
to
have
a
new
set
of
tools
and
products
to
help
you
walk
through
it.
There
were
a
lot
of
challenges
for
sales
leaders
in
2020.
This
was
a
major
one,
showcasing
a
product,
making
sure
it
doesn't
break.
Some
of
the
enterprise
clients
that
were
design
partners
for
us
at
first,
they
had
to
spend
millions
on
salaries
of
pre-sale
engineers
and
salespeople
just
to
create
mock-up
demos,
make
sure
things
don't
break
when
they
go
on
a
live
call,
but
everything
broke
for
everyone,
so
there
was
an
immediate
need.
Pablo
8:06
Were
these
relationships
you
already
had
or
did
you
run
a
cold
email
campaign
to
just
get
in
front
of
people?
Yoav
8:12
We
used
–
yeah,
it
was
not
the
first
run
for
me
and
my
co-founders.
There
was
a
couple
of
sales
leaders
we
had
in
our
network
that
we
could
interview.
I
tried
to
focus
on
the
US
market
and
go
up
market
as
much
as
I
could,
but
the
first
couple
of
calls
we
had
were,
of
course,
relying
on
our
own
network.
The
following
calls
we
had
were
because
there
started
to
be
a
word
out
about
this
new
animal
called
interactive
demos,
and
some
set
leaders
just
agreed
to
take
a
call
and
what
it's
going
to
be
about.
Pablo
8:42
Were
those
original
calls,
did
you
structure
them
as
discovery,
asking
questions,
or
was
it
you
were
more
sales
mode
by
that
point,
pretty
confident
that
this
was
a
solid
idea
and
it
was
just
about
trying
to
get
people
to
sign?
Yoav
8:54
We
were
super
confident
about
our
idea,
but
we
positioned
it,
of
course,
what
I
think
every
founder
should
do,
first
of
all,
you
start
by
asking
about
the
challenges
and
the
problems
and
what's
missing
in
your
sales
stack,
and
then
you
get
some
solid
answers
that
could
lead
you
to
your
own
idea.
Our
instinct
was
that
they're
going
to
benefit
from
the
specific
idea
we
had,
but
we
started
the
call
with
just
hearing
their
general
set
of
problems.
Pablo
9:22
You
ended
up
building
a
wait
list
of
700
people.
Was
this
all
hand-to-hand
combat
700
interviews
or
did
you
at
some
point
find
things,
different
tactics
to
maybe
scale
that
wait
list
a
bit
faster?
Yoav
9:36
Let's
say
we
interviewed
60
or
70
sales
leaders
and
that
was
one-on-one
meetings
that
we
got
from
our
network
and
other
people.
Afterwards,
we
raised
an
initial
seed
round.
It
was
the
first
batch
of
our
seed
round.
It
was
$2.5
million.
At
that
moment
I
felt
that
I
should
go
to
market
as
fast
as
I
can.
Pablo
9:59
At
that
point,
did
you
just
–
was
it
really
based
on
the
team?
You
had
a
track
record.
Was
that
mainly
why
you
think
you
raised
that
seed
round
when
you
did
or
was
there
a
thesis
that
I
think
it
was
NFX,
right,
that
led
it,
that
maybe
they
had
at
the
time?
Yoav
10:12
Yeah,
NFX,
which
of
course
is
an
amazing
fund
for
SaaS
product,
they
were
the
first
believers.
They
were
accompanied
by
angel
investors
like
the
CEO
of
Wix
and
Liquid2
in
San
Francisco
and
some
other
investors.
The
way
that
we
saw
it,
my
initial
investors,
they
were
like,
“The
website
isn't
clear
yet.
The
value
prop
isn't
clear
yet.
If
you
launch
it
now
and
go
above
the
radar,
then
you
might
burn
some
bridges.”
I
saw
a
lot
of
different
startups
in
my
life
and
I
felt
that
this
one
could
spark
a
whole
landscape
if
we
do
it
fast
and
we
do
it
loud.
That
was
the
strategy.
We
put
marketing
in
mind
and
brand
in
mind
and
all
that
and
positioning
it
in
mind
since
Day
1.
I
took
it
to
places
like
Product
Hunt
and
LinkedIn
and
all
kinds
of
platforms
where
I
felt
salespeople
are
going
to
be
curious
to
hear
what
it's
about.
It
was,
according
to
some
publications,
the
most
viral
product
launch
of
2020.
As
you
know,
it
was
a
troubling
year
to
be
doing
anything.
That
helped
the
wait
list
grow
to
700
people
and
that
also
helped
us
extend
our
seed
round
from
2.5
to,
I
think,
it
was
6
or
7.
Pablo
11:33
How
do
you
–
so
let
me
go
on
that
tangent
for
a
second.
I
think
being
the
stealth
startup
is
cool
these
days,
right?
I
think
the
general
advice
you
would
get
from
VCs
is
stay
quiet
until
you're
ready,
art
of
war
stuff.
Obviously,
you
did
the
opposite
and
it
works
for
you.
What's
your
advice
to
founders
on
what
should
they
think
about?
I'm
sure
it's
case
by
case.
What
should
they
think
about
whether
they
consider
going
out
early,
product
hunt,
blasting
it
out,
PR,
all
this
stuff,
or
staying
quiet
until
they're
doing
$10
million
ARR
and
then
they
get
noticed?
Yoav
12:06
Yeah,
like
you
said,
it's
case
by
case.
Cybersecurity
companies,
if
they
spark
competition,
they
can
be
in
trouble.
You
have
to
have
a
very
specific
marketing
where
you
reach
out,
you
do
ABM
for
specific
CISOs
and
your
tone
of
voice
has
to
be
spooky,
right?
You're
going
to
get
hacked
and
every
–
that's
a
whole
other
set
of
going
to
market.
I
feel
that
in
sales
enablement,
B2B
sales
kind
of
thing,
there
was
room
for
a
playbook
to
go
wild.
We've
done
things
that
just
amazed
us
with
the
exposure
they
had
and
the
response
we
got
from
the
market.
That
was
a
hunch
that
I
had.
If
we
speak
about
pros
and
cons,
obviously
pros,
it
built
out
the
landscape,
which
is
now
pretty
popular
and
a
lot
of
people
are
aware
of
it.
Cons,
it
generates
a
lot
of
companies
that
are
inspired
by
our
idea
and
some
of
them
can
raise
a
lot
of
money.
Overall,
that
also
helps
you
educate
the
market.
The
only
tip
that
I
can
give
founders
is
they
have
to
decide
if
they're
building
something
where
market
education
will
help
them
and
they
don't
mind
having
15
or
20
follow-up
teams
that
will
be
inspired
by
their
idea.
That's
fine.
You
can
go
crazy.
If
you
think
you're
building
in
a
landscape
where
even
two
competitors
will
be
problematic
for
you,
then
you
should
definitely
be
heads
down
and
build
for
a
while.
Pablo
13:42
This
is
a
stupid
question,
but
just
for
the
audience
who
maybe
not
all
in
on
sales
enablement
tech,
when
you
take
something
like
InVision,
which
is
really
just
mockups
for
product
or
whatever,
and
you
compare
it
to
what
you
built
at
Walnut,
what
are
some
of
the
key
differences?
Is
that
even
an
analogy
that
even
makes
sense
or
is
this
totally
different
worlds?
Yoav
14:02
It's
totally
different
because
people
use
mockup
tools
to
create
something
that
doesn't
exist
yet
mostly
and
illustrate
how
that
would
play
out.
Whereas
we
work
with
companies,
like
Adobe,
or
Dell,
or
Equifax,
or
Medallia,
or
companies
where
everything
is
all
set
up,
to
say
the
least,
but
they
have
to
turn
that
into
something
that
will
actually
be
able
to
tell
a
story
and
in
a
way
that
you
don't
need
to
borrow
any
resources
from
RND
product
or
design.
You've
got
to
have
your
platform
all
set.
You
can
just
customize
the
data
and
make
it
amazing,
but
it's
not
–
you
cannot
make
up
some
feature
that
doesn't
exist
as
you
would
with
graphic
design.
Pablo
14:44
Let's
go
back
to
this
wait
list.
You
do
decide
the
strategy
of
going
out
there
and
just
making
as
much
noise
as
possible.
What
were
some
of
the
tactics
that
worked
the
best?
Any
stories
you
can
share
from
there
where
even
maybe
you
were
surprised
as
to
just
how
well
they
really
ended
up
working
and
what
were
they
and
how
did
you
structure
them?
Going viral
Yoav
15:03
Yeah,
so
I
would
talk
about
two
anecdotes
that
I
think
some
of
the
people
listening
might
know.
One
of
them
is
a
video
that
we
released
that
was
a
low
budget
film.
We
tried
to
say
–
we
were
still
a
pretty
small
team.
We
wrote
the
script
and
we
acted
in
it
as
to
the
best
of
our
abilities,
but
it
was
me
thinking
we
are
all
someone
else's
prospects.
Even
people
that
have
or
run
software
companies,
they
are
also
buying
software
from
other
people.
Eventually,
the
prospects
are
going
through
terrible
processes.
I
came
up
with
this
hashtag
called
We
are
Prospect
and
we
filmed
a
video
of
a
nice
lady
trying
to
buy
a
shirt
and
the
salesperson
is
giving
her
hell
and
it's
the
metaphor
was
buying
software,
of
course.
We
just
published
it
on
LinkedIn.
In
retrospect,
the
message
really
resonates
and
the
way
we
told
the
story
really
resonates
with
the
audience
and
we
woke
up
to
seeing
millions
and
millions
of
organic
views
on
LinkedIn.
Pablo
16:09
Did
you
sponsor
it
or
literally
you
just
put
it
out
on
LinkedIn
as
a
video
on
your
profile
and
it
just
took
off?
Yoav
16:14
Completely
organic.
The
most
significant
companies
in
our
space
reached
out
wanting
to
be
part
of
the
movement.
Some
of
them
are
public
companies,
people
from
Fortune
500,
executives
from
Fortune
companies
were
sharing
it
on
LinkedIn
saying
this
is
insane.
Some
of
our
competition
was
starting
to
do
low,
even
lower
budget
versions
of
that
film.
It
just
broke
LinkedIn
for
a
little
while,
but
this
was
really
early
on
and
this
was
really
low
budget,
and
it
was
our
way
to
say,
what's
the
change
we
want
to
bring?
It's
not
just
a
product
we're
building.
Then
we
had
an
episode
two
of
that
and
that
also
had
the
same
outcome.
We
chose
building
a
movement
as
some
tactic
that
I
know
every
founder
says
they
want
to
build
a
category
and
every
founder
says
they
want
to
build
a
movement
and
all
kinds
of
stuff.
For
us,
it
played
out
nice.
The
second
tactic
we
used…
Pablo
17:09
Maybe
just
on
that,
by
the
way,
and
we'll
share
the
link
to
that
video
in
the
footnotes,
but
just
from
your
perspective,
what
do
you
think
you
got
so
right?
For
people
to
actually
share
a
company's
video,
you’ve
got
to
really
resonate
with
something
inside,
and
then
you
did
it
again,
right?
What
do
you
think
is
the
nugget
that
you
really
got
right
there?
Yoav
17:30
I
think
the
emotions
that
people
had
at
the
time
were,
and
especially
people
on
LinkedIn,
which
are
professionals,
right?
Most
of
them
are
salespeople,
marketing
people,
CS
people.
I
think
everybody
was
suffering
from
the
same
thing.
They
just
didn't
know
to
put
their
fingers
on
it
and
say,
this
part
of
the
entire
process
is
a
shit
show
prospect
or
suffering
processes.
There's
an
infographic
that
Galata
published.
It
looks
like
a
meme.
It's
so
complicated.
They
take
you
through
what
a
sales
process
is
in
B2B,
but
it's
a
million
lines
going
crazy
in
circles
and
people
knew
what's
pissing
them
off.
They
didn't
know
to
describe
it.
Then
we
just
did
a
video
where
this
lady
trying
to
buy
a
shirt
was
the
heart
of
the
suffering
of
everyone
that
were
exposed
to
our
video
and
they
just
engaged
with
it
like
crazy.
Pablo
18:18
Was
it
mainly
focused
on
the
problem
side
or
did
it
–
or
how
much
was
the
solution
even
part
of
that
video?
I
find,
generally
speaking,
the
problem
is
actually
what
resonates
more.
As
long
as
you're
like,
“Yeah,
that
pisses
me
off,”
you
hit
that
like,
you
hit
that
share,
was
that
how
you
structured
it?
Yoav
18:34
Yeah,
we
didn't
even
talk
about
Walnut
in
that
video.
We
had
very
successful
ads,
but
this
one
was
completely
a
problem.
We
just
put
a
Walnut
logo
on
it.
The
call
to
action
was
not
even
trial
product.
The
call
to
action
was
sign
up
for
more
content.
Pablo
18:53
You're
moving
on
to
the
second
tactic.
Second Tactic to the Waitlist
Yoav
18:56
The
second
tactic
that
we
did
early
on
and
really
low
budget
was
we
went
to
LinkedIn
with
a
set
of
ads
that
–
and
I
know
we're
talking
about
startups
still
being
scrappy
and
not
having
a
lot
of
budgets.
We
published
on
LinkedIn
a
set
of
ads
that
show
a
cat
and
a
lion
and
the
excess
that
before
Walnut
your
product
demo
is
a
cat
and
after
it's
a
lion.
Now
you're
wondering
what
difference
does
that
make?
Everybody
makes
funny
ads,
but
essentially,
we
were
the
first
ones
to
use
that
format.
Then
today
you
see
the
top
companies,
the
top
enterprise
companies,
hundreds
and
hundreds
of
them
just
borrowing
the
same
format.
It
was
an
annual
conference.
The
CMO
of
LinkedIn
went
on
live
stage
about,
I
think
it
was
last
year
or
two
years
ago.
The
first
thing
he
showed
on
the
screen,
I
think
it
was
some
pastry,
like
Walnut
saying,
before
it's
uncooked
and
after
it's
a
cooked
pastry.
It
got
to
all
kinds
of
festivals
on
the
main
screen
and
people,
and
I
heard
from
people
that
are
students
in
some
college
that
a
professor
was
analyzing
why
Walnut
did
what
they
did
with
that
ad.
Honestly,
I
have
to
say
we
didn't
do
a
lot.
We
thought
it's
going
to
be
cool.
We
didn't
know
it's
going
to
get
there.
What
I'm
trying
to
say
is
you
don't
need
a
lot
of
budgets
when
you're
just
going
to
market.
At
first
you
can
be
pretty
good
at
just
sensing
what
your
audience
is
looking
to
see
and
are
they
trying
–
are
they
wanting
to
buy
tools
that
are
down
to
earth
that
are
boring
and
professional?
How
are
they
going
to
react
to
humor
and
jokes?
To
us,
it
played
out
pretty
early
on.
Pablo
20:41
Then
maybe
moving
on.
You're
building
this
wait
list.
You're
creating
content
and
I
assume
just
spending
a
lot
of
time
heads
down
building
the
product.
How
do
you
shift
from
there
to
actually
putting
the
product
in
people's
hands?
When
did
that
start
happening
and
what
did
that
look
like?
Yoav
20:58
We
worked
with
Design
Partners
and
we
started
onboarding
companies
that
were
part
of
the
wait
list.
We
had
a
couple
of
hundreds
of,
like
I
said,
of
contacts
on
the
wait
list
and
we
tried
choosing
companies
where
we
thought
it's
going
to
be
a
fit
and
use
cases
where
we
thought
it's
going
to
be
a
fit.
Because
our
way
to
a
fast
market
fit
is
not
going
all
in
with
everything
that
–
with
everything
possible.
You’ve
got
to
try
and
make
something
valuable
for
the
clients.
Otherwise,
you're
the
one
that's
starting
off.
They
have
nothing
to
lose
and
you
can
lose
a
lot
of
money
and
precious
time.
Pablo
21:37
What
Finding the Right Customers and Prices
Pablo
21:38
did
you
think
about,
when
you
thought
about,
because
I
think
that's
critically
important.
Product
market
fit
is
partially
about
the
product.
It's
also
about
the
market
and
specifically
the
market
you
choose
to
start
with.
What
were
some
of
the
elements
you
thought
through
when
you
decided,
these
customers
are
a
fit,
but
these
ones
maybe
not
yet?
Yoav
21:53
First
of
all,
the
persona
that
reached
out
and
signed
up
for
the
wait
list,
if
we
saw
it
as
someone
that
can
make
an
impact
and
help
us
drive
success
within
the
organization,
that's
one
thing.
The
size
of
the
company,
of
course,
we
tried
to
go
enterprise
and…
Pablo
22:07
You
wanted
bigger.
You
didn't
want
big
market
or
SMB.
You'd
rather
large
enterprise
to
start.
Yoav
22:13
Yeah,
which,
overall,
I
think
that
we
had
a
couple
where
–
we
actually
had
a
mix.
We
had
a
couple
of
startup
companies
where
the
founders
were
making
demos
all
day
long.
We
had
Fortune
100
companies.
I
think
that
this
problem
of
showcasing
the
product
is
a
cross
vertical
problem
and
a
cross
size
problem.
I
tried
to
prove
it
by
showing
that
we
can
drive
value
to
initial
companies
in
various
stages.
It
played
out
completely.
It's
really
not
about
the
size
of
the
company
today.
It's
really
a
global
problem,
you
might
say.
Pablo
22:48
One
of
the
things
with
enterprises,
I
find,
is
there's
so
much
upside
because
the
contract
sizes
can
be
so
big
when
you
get
there,
but
one
of
the
things
that
I've
seen
at
least
is
this
mismatch
between
speed.
As
a
startup,
every
day
matters,
every
week
matters.
As
an
enterprise,
you're
thinking
in
quarters
maybe,
but
probably
years.
Did
you
find
some
of
that
or
did
you,
for
whatever
reason
at
that
time,
find
there
was
actually
enough
pull
from
these
enterprise
customers
and
they
were
moving
at
your
speed?
Yoav
23:18
They
were
moving
fast.
We
were
obviously
–
you're
starting
at
a
price
point
where
it's
not
too
much
of
a
complicated
procurement
process
with
enterprise
companies,
right?
You
never
stop
with
a
–
you
never
start
with
a
$200,000
ACV
if
you're
a
startup
company.
You
always
find
the
right
–
if
you
find
the
right
guy
within
the
company,
then
obviously
you
can
decide
together
what's
a
financial
agreement
that
he
can
move
fast
with,
he
can
see
value,
then
he
can
finally
expand
within
the
organization
and
try
to
go
for
everything
that
could
get
us
traction
and
not
scare
off
their
CFOs.
We
grow
our
prices
from
there.
I
think
you
have
to
lose
some
dollars
the
first
place
in
order
to
get
those
logos.
Pablo
24:03
Maybe
just
the
other
thing,
I
don't
know
if
this
came
up
in
conversations,
I
just
am
thinking
in
the
back
of
my
head,
oftentimes
startups
are
pitching
this
time
saving
ROI,
whereas
with
you,
I
would
assume
that
for
a
lot
of
these
salespeople
who
are
implementing
it,
it
affected
their
own
KPIs,
close
rate,
and
things
like
that.
Is
that
accurate?
Is
that
how
they
looked
at,
well,
the
demos
don't
crash,
I'll
close
more
deals
and
that's
why
it's
so
important
to
me?
Yoav
24:28
It
was
a
little
easier
to
quantify,
I
would
say,
because
if
you
don't
have
to
spend
millions
of
dollars
on
teams
that
just
build
out
demo
environments,
if
you
don't
have
to
spend
theoretical
millions
of
dollars
on
people
communicating
inside
the
organization,
can
you
add
a
feature?
Can
you
remove
a
feature?
We
all
know
what
happens
when
a
salesperson
in
a
B2B
company
goes
to
anyone
at
RND
and
asks
them
to
illustrate
a
new
feature,
right?
They're
going
to
kick
his
ass.
It
was
really
hard
to
–
it
was
really
easy
to
quantify.
At
first,
I
think
I
wouldn't
be
as
ambitious
to
say
we
doubled
everyone's
sales
or
everyone
met
their
quotas
just
because
they
used
Walnut.
You
cannot
attach
us
such
a
success
to
any
of
your
tools,
not
even
the
most
successful
one,
but
we
were
definitely
proud
of
a
set
of
improvements
that
they
saw
within
the
org.
Pablo
25:17
Then
that's
the
design
partners,
I
guess,
you're
going
back
and
forth.
Did
you
end
up
picking
–
you
had,
as
you
said,
from
startup
founders
all
the
way
to
enterprise
as
you
started
off
in
this
design
phase.
Did
you
end
up
deciding
to
at
least
from
a
go-to-market
perspective,
hone
in
on
one
of
those
company
size
types
or
did
you
scale
from
there
to
a
million
plus
growing
across
the
board?
Yoav
25:42
The
upside
of
seeing
a
landscape
that
you
created
become
clouded
and
competitive
is
the
market
education
is
on
steroids
and
the
inbound
leads
that
you
get
are
also
on
steroids.
You
get
a
lot
of
leads
coming
in.
The
more
other
vendors
are
helping
to
educate
the
market,
the
more
leads
you
get
coming
in
from
the
top
company
because
they
see
one
of
the
vendors
do
something
nice
and
then
they
say,
“Oh,
interactive
demos,
that
sounds
cool.”
They
research
and
they
see
who
was
the
pioneer
of
the
market
and
then
they
reach
out.
It
was
really
fast.
Everything
happened
really
fast
here.
Gardner
recognizing
it.
People
raising
series
A,
B,
lots
of
companies
in
YC
in
it,
and
enterprise
champions
have
a
demos
budget,
which
it
was
not
a
thing
before
we
launched.
They
were
using
Loom
videos
to
show
product.
They
were
using
PowerPoint
presentations
and
they
were
using
just
IT
oriented
demo
environments.
From
the
moment
everything
happens
so
fast,
if
things
are
playing
out
for
you,
you
get
a
lot
of
leads
from
companies
and
really
tough
logos.
Then
it's
just
about
the
value
of
the
product,
right?
Nothing's
going
to
help
you
if
the
product
is
not
valuable.
Lucky
for
us,
the
first
set
of
clients
and
design
partners
we
had
were
that
they
saw
positive
arrive
from
everything.
Pablo
27:05
Was
most
of
your
road
from
zero
to
one
or
$2
million
ARR
really
just
inbound
led
or
did
you
do
an
outbound
motion
as
well
at
that
point?
Yoav
27:15
Between
zero
and
two.
I
would
say
it
was
mostly
inbound
for
sure.
Pablo
27:19
Got
it.
Then
The Seed Round
Pablo
27:20
what
about
the
series
–
so
I
believe
when
you
raised
$15
million,
I
think
it
was
mid-2021,
is
that
correct?
That
was
a
series
A
or
B?
Yoav
27:28
A.
Pablo
27:28
A,
okay.
Where
were
you
at
that
point?
Maybe
just
walk
us
through
how
that
fundraise
even
happened.
Was
that
also
inbound
or
did
you
run
a
process?
How
did
you
do
that?
Yoav
27:40
Right,
so
we
extended
our
seed
round,
like
I
said,
from
two
to
a
six.
That
extension
happened
with
some
pretty
amazing
investors,
mostly
from
SF,
A
Capital,
and
SV
Angel,
and
a
couple
of
others.
A
couple
of
months
later
we
did
raise
our
series
A
was
pretty
preemptive.
It
was
by
a
VC
based
out
of
London
called
Eight
Roads.
Then
a
few
months
later
we
had
our
series
B
done.
Like
you
said,
everything
happened
pretty
fast
within
our
funding
for
some
of
the
competition,
it
was
the
same.
It
was
going
from
zero
to
series
B
in
12
or
18
months.
I
think
there
was
a
lot
of
excitement
around
the
problem
everyone
was
trying
to
solve.
I
think
every
VC
made
their
bet
on
initial
traction
that
teams
had.
Also,
the
technology
approach
is
a
bit
different
from
team
to
team.
There
was
also
looking
at
the
market
and
thinking
which
technology
and
which
product
approach
can
scale
the
fastest.
Pablo
28:48
Can
you
describe
maybe
just
what
it
felt
like
for
things
to
move
that
fast,
both
in
terms
of
just
getting
all
this
money
into
your
company
within
12
to
18
months,
and
then
the
hiring
and
the
servicing
that
you
need
to
do
to
react
quickly?
What
was
that
experience
like?
Yoav
29:08
It's
a
pretty
intense
experience,
I
think.
You
need
a
strong
initial
leadership
and
management
team
as
your
first
team,
otherwise,
it's
not
going
to
work.
You
don't
have
to
grow
to
a
hundred
people
for
things
not
to
work.
You
can
grow
to
40
people
or
30
people
and
get
it
wrong.
The
first
thing
I
made
sure
that
the
leadership
was
super
strong.
We
tried
to
put
our
culture
in
mind,
even
though
it's
distributed
across
so
many
time
zones.
There
was
some,
of
course,
growing
pains
with
going
from
zero
to
whatever
that
was
super
fast.
You
spend
a
lot
of
time
taking
care
of
situations
where
people
were
not
mid
management,
but
then
they
are
mid
management
and
then
they
want
to
manage
two
people,
but
maybe,
and
then
things
are
going
back
to
normal
and
there's
a
lot
of
lesson
learned
here,
but
I
would
say
it
all
falls
on
how
strong
your
initial
leadership
team
that
surrounds
you.
Pablo
30:09
One
of
the
problems
I
see,
and
especially
when,
actually,
this
is
when
things
are
working
and
you're
getting
market
pull,
is
CEOs
getting
caught
up
putting
out
fires,
right?
Because
especially
as
you
start
growing,
just
things
go
wrong
and
sometimes
you
do
need
to
react
as
a
CEO,
but
then
you
can
also
get
to
the
point
where
you're
just
constantly
putting
out
fires.
Any
thoughts
around
that?
Especially
having
been
through
it
a
few
times,
I
would
think
you
manage
to
get
your
head
above
it
all.
How
do
you
do
that?
How
do
you
manage
being
reactive
and
putting
out
fires
versus
staying
on
top
of
it
and
being
able
to
really
just
move
your
company
forward?
Putting Out Fires vs Staying Ahead
Yoav
30:48
I
don't
think
–
if
I
think
of
friends
of
mine
that
have
1,000
people
on
their
team
or
5,000
or
10,000,
I
think
everybody
has
fires
all
the
time,
and
also,
when
it's
just
two
co-founders
to
start
with,
right?
There's
always
a
fire.
Then
also
it
goes
to
your
first
team
helping
you
out
to
your
board,
to
your
investors,
people,
advisors,
whatever
that
is,
you
shouldn't
expect
your
employees
to
help
you
fix
the
daily
fires
and
for
good
reason
because
what
they
have
in
mind
is
their
path,
their
progression
within
the
company,
and
if
it's
good
for
their
career
and
if
it's
good
for
the
company,
and
you
as
a
CEO,
you
have
to
be
providing,
the
most
successful
paths
to
all
of
your
employees
while
you
are
putting
out
files
that
could
be
anything,
something
in
production,
a
huge
customer
is
on
a
conference
now
showing
a
demo
and
something
and
they
don't
have
Wi-Fi
and
whatever,
right?
Someone
is
to
fly
over
–
it
never
stops.
You
just
need
to
have
the
world's
best
people
on
your
management
team
to
make
sure
that
you're
able
to
succeed.
Pablo
32:03
Perfect.
Well,
listen,
we'll
stop
it
there
and
maybe
just
end
on
the
two
questions
we
always
end
on.
The
first
one,
when
did
you
feel
you
had
true
product
market
fit?
True PMF
Yoav
32:14
That's
a
good
question
because
when
I
was
in
SF
a
few
months
ago,
I
went
to
Dreamforce
and
it
was
just
–
I
was
meeting
one
of
our
investors
and
it
was
going
for
the
last
two
hours
of
the
entire
week.
I
walked
in
and
then
I
noticed
that
a
big
–
I
wouldn't
say
half
of
the
companies,
but
a
huge
portion
of
companies
were
actually
using
Walnut
to
show
their
demos
inside
the
Dreamforce
Hall.
Some
of
them
also
recognized
me
from
that
video
that
we
did.
It
was
a
pretty
–
when
you
build
a
B2B
SaaS
product,
you
don't
really
see
it
in
the
hands
of
real-life
people
in
the
real
world,
right?
It's
not
a
B2C
app
or
something,
but
that
was
a
moment
where
I
saw
people
just
using
it
and
showing
me
how
they
use
it,
show
me
if
they're
using
it
on
a
huge
screen
or
a
tablet
or
just
a
laptop.
That
was
an
amazing
moment.
I
left
that
conference
hall
and
I
felt
that
we
did
something
that
actually
gets
to
people
on
their
day
to
day.
Pablo
33:23
That's
a
great
story.
Yeah,
I
admit,
I
think
as
a
founder,
seeing
the
value
truly
delivered
and
appreciated
by
our
customers
is
really
what
it's
all
about.
Then
the
last
question.
Taking
everything
you've
learned
over
the
last,
I
guess,
three
and
a
half
or
so
years
running
Walnut,
if
you
could
go
back
and
give
yourself
one
piece
of
advice
when
you
were
just
starting
this
company,
what
would
that
be?
One Piece of Advice
Yoav
33:49
When
we
started
the
company,
the
tech
market
seemed
as
difficult
as
it
is
now
because
the
first
lockdown
of
COVID
seemed
like
tech
is
never
going
to
come
back.
Everybody
was
let
go.
Nobody
was
raising
money.
I
remember
people
telling
me
when
I
told
them
I'm
going
to
start
raising
a
seed
round,
they
were
like,
“You're
crazy.
It's
the
worst
time
ever.
Find
a
job.
Stop
,” but I was sold on the problem that we wanted to solve and it really reward us because people really appreciate founders that are trying to raise at all costs and even when times are difficult. Now I think this is a different type of crisis and I think VCs definitely appreciate pre-seed teams or seed teams that are just going all in and saying tech has taken a hit and multiples have taken a hit, but we're still – we believe in the problem we want to solve, so not to let other people's opinions of if it's a good time now to be doing it, if it's a bad time, if you should wait six months, or those tips that I sometimes hear founders get from investors. I think there's no right timing. You’ve just got to go all in and it's going to be fine.
Pablo
35:02
I
love
that
because
I
think,
if
you
are
starting
a
startup
today,
you
are
doing
it
because
you
genuinely
believe
that
you
have
to
solve
this
problem.
You're
certainly
not
doing
it
for
the
hype.
Two
years
ago,
who
knows?
Some
people
were
doing
it
for
that
reason,
and
some
people
were
doing
it
because
of
the
Tech
Crunch
headline
that
they
raised
$10
million,
right?
Yeah,
when
the
tide
goes
down,
it
really
washes
down
a
lot
of
people
that
are
in
for
the
wrong
reasons.
To
all
the
founders
that
are
fighting
it
right
now,
that's
the
plus
side.
Anyways,
with
that
said,
Yoav,
it's
been
a
pleasure
having
you
on
the
show.
Yeah,
I
think
founders
learn
a
lot
from
what
you
did,
especially
on
the
raising
awareness,
right?
Just
using
content
to
propel
yourself
forward,
to
make
yourself
a
category
leader
and
all
the
good
that
comes
from
that.
Thank
you
for
sharing
all
that.
If
you've
listened
to
this
episode
and
the
show
and
you
like
it,
I
have
a
huge
favor
to
ask
for
you.
Well,
it's
actually
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really
small
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but
it
has
huge
impact.
Whichever
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It's
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It's
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