Season A - Ep. 14: Shelley Perry, Managing Director at Scalelogix Ventures on Investor vs Operator mindset

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Shelley Perry is an investor, board director, and advisor that specializes in the uniqueness of the SaaS ScaleUp Stage. In this interview we discussed ScaleUps, compared the mindset of investors and operators, and touched on the European SaaS space.

BIO

Shelley Perry is a Managing Director at Scalelogix Ventures. Over her career in SaaS she was an Operating Partner at Insight Partners, CEO of Bynder, Chief Product Officer at NTT, CTO Industry Solutions at Hewlett-Packard, among other things. Shelly sits on boards of Chargebee, Bynder, Foresite MSP, Airbrake.io, and Trove.

TIME STAMPS

01:30 ScaleUp stage

07:30 Quantifying Low, Mid, and Late ScaleUp stage

11:10 What goes wrong on ScaleUp stage?

14:35 What do operators learn when they start investing?

16:45 Role of an Operating Partner at an investment firm

19:20 Due Diligence for different stages of ScaleUp companies

22:35 Do investors and operators look at the same SaaS metrics?

26:00 European SaaS space

28:50 US investors in European SaaS

31:40 SaaS companies that are worth imitating

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