$1Billion CRM From India Competing With Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared The Neon Show podcast

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$1Billion CRM from India competing with Salesforce | Nilesh Patel, LeadSquared

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CRM is a category often equated with its market leader, Salesforce.

Hence, companies and investors question the viability of building a business in this space.

Nilesh Patel, founder of Leadsquared, who built a Unicorn in CRM, joins us today.

We discuss the category, the business, and its competitors.

With Byju’s as their first large deal, Edtech brought over 40% of their customers.

Then the industry went through a downfall, but Leadsquared survived by a well timed expansion.

From lack of capital restricting entry into the US market, to fast-forward today, where they have gone global.

Nilesh shares his thoughts on the skills founders need and the decisions they have to make -on exits, acquisitions, and hiring.

Tune in for more!

0:00-Trailer

1:35 – Building Leadsquared

3:19 – First large deal with Byjus

7:12 – Fundraising from Private Equity

9:58 – CRM as an Undesirable Investment

12:10 – Should Co’s enter the CRM Space?

13:35 – How to price SAAS in India?

15:23 – Diversifying beyond EdTech

16:49 – How to build market differentiation?

20:29 – Highest annual deal of <$10M

23:37 – India spends $500M-$1B on CRM

26:39 – Are Indian founders underpricing?

28:40 – GTM in the US Market

33:26 – What would Leadsquared do differently?

47:32 – When Should a Founder Exit?

49:03 – How AI Will Transform CRM

55:09 – Views on Byju Raveendran

56:55 – When founders think like VC’s

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