030: Doug Winter | From $0 to $1 Billion, How to Build & Lead a Unicorn SaaS Company

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Doug Winter is the co-founder and CEO of Seismic, a unicorn SaaS company valued at over $1B based out of San Diego, CA. Prior to Seismic, Doug also successfully built and sold his last company, Objectiva Software Solutions, for $90M.  Key Points: How Doug decided that Seismic was an idea worth going "all in" on.  How to build a foundation that scales How Doug and his co-founders approached built a high performing company culture The most important keys to raising capital (and if you should) Leadership Do's and Don'ts based on Doug's experience building numerous companies Key Quotes: "At some point, you gotta be a little bit stupid and just go for it." “Get customer validation early and often."  "You can build an incredible product, but if you don't know how to sell it, don't know how to take it to market, no one is ever going to know about it." "If you don't know who your first ten customers could be or should be, then you probably haven't thought through things enough..." Doug Winter https://seismic.com/ For more information about Chris Vasquez and Next Level Mindset: http://chrisjvasquez.com