One of the most tiring things for founders can be always being compared to Unicorns. Certainly sometimes it’s inspirational. I loved it when many of the founders I work with came out of the ’15 SaaStrAnnual saying they needed to grow faster, at a Zenefits-like level:
But the reality is as a founder there are different ways to make real money and build something meaningful. Go back to our case study of Marketo vs. Eloqua vs. Pardot here.