Saastr 005: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Changing The Way We Work and The Rise of The Bottoms Up Sales Strategy

It is a huge honour to welcome, Mamoon Hamid, Partner @ Social Capital. One of the world's best performing funds with investments in the likes of Slack, Box, Intercom, Yammer and many more incredible companies. Prior to joining Social Mamoon was a Partner at US Venture Partners (USVP) and in today's show we discuss:

• How Mamoon made his way into the world of investing and VC?

• What were Mamoon's biggest takeaways from seeing the rocketship growth of the likes of Slack and Box? What were their challenges faced?

• What is the distinct value proposition of Social over other VC funds? How do you look to differentiate?

• What has been the effect of the rise of the bottoms up sales apprcach and what role will this play in the future for selling to enterprise clients?

• Which company will be the first to make a million on Slack?

In a round we call the 60 Second Saastr, we also hear:

1. Biggest challenge facing Mamoon and Social Capital?

2. Mamoon's favourite SaaS resource?

3. Biggest piece of advice to SaaS founders?

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• Jason Lemkin

• Harry Stebbings

• Saastr

• Mamoon Hamid