Breaking new ground to IPO: The Procore Story When I first met Procore’s founder and CEO, Tooey Courtemanche, nothing about him or Procore fit the profile of a typical venture capital investment. Tooey’s path into entrepreneurship was unorthodox. He was a veteran of the first dot-com bubble, living in Santa Barbara, and had spent a decade struggling to get widespread adoption of Procore. […]
ACV: From used-car dealerships in Buffalo to a nationwide marketplace The opportunity almost slipped through our fingers. It was mid 2016, and a friend had asked whether I’d do him a favor by sending someone from Bessemer to a demo day in New York City for Buffalo-based startups. I’d all but forgotten about it. But at the last minute, on his insistence, I asked one […]
Power to the product: How five cloud CEOs leverage product as an edge to drive exponential growth and customer love
