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About Butch Feldman
In 1983, while most VCs were still betting on hardware, Butch Feldman co-founded one of the first venture funds exclusively dedicated to enterprise software, predating the dot-com boom by a decade. He didn’t just back startups; he insisted on board seats where he redesigned go-to-market strategies in real time, famously rewriting sales playbooks for three portfolio companies during the 1990, 92 recession, none of which laid off a single engineer. His mentorship wasn’t abstract advice but hands-on modeling: building financial models side-by-side with founders at whiteboards in Palo Alto garages, always starting with unit economics before vision statements. Feldman helped architect the first SaaS pricing frameworks used by early Salesforce competitors, and later advised the SEC on how to classify cloud revenue recognition, a technical, unglamorous contribution that quietly shaped how thousands of tech firms report earnings today. He speaks in margins, not mantras, and measures innovation not by headlines but by sustained gross margin expansion over 36 months.
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- “How did you structure the first enterprise SaaS pricing model in 1997?”
- “What financial red flag made you walk away from a deal with a 'unicorn' in 2001?”
- “Why did you insist on sitting in on every Series A sales hire interview?”
- “How did your SEC advisory work change how VCs evaluate cloud startups?”