Asynchronous funding rounds - Danke, Loom! The Return of the Power Law, Is PLG the end of sales, and more...
👋 Hey, Ruchin here! Welcome to this week’s edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG)
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Today is a big day
After 3 years of research, interviews, and writing, MY FIRST BOOK IS OUT!!!
At midnight, I obsessively hit refresh on my Kindle and Audible until - it felt like magic - it appeared. I hit play on the audiobook, and it was a “holy shit” moment
Here’s the pic
"[Sending a deck] is like sending someone a song and some of the tracks of music are missing. Any slide that you put together is meant to be accompanied by your voice track. And so if you’re sending slides without that, it’s a terrible way to convey information." Protocol @protocol During the pandemic, VCs have embraced Loom videos as a way to get an overview of a startup or its product before even committing to a “get-to-know-you” meeting over Zoom. It even has its own catchphrase: “Loom, Zoom, Room.” https://t.co/laFr3YGpxG🔎 The PLG hunt
Which hot and upcoming PLG company are you most excited about? 👇🏻 Growth Stories 🚀Overheard here at Toplyne HQ the other day: “After mmhmm, let’s write Clockwise” We’re big fans of Clockwise, a browser extension that tucks away uninterrupted hours, sets up focus-time blocks, reschedules conflicts, and intelligently manages your time. In the year that followed their series A, Clockwise’s landed and expanded at companies like Slack, Spotify, Twitter, Etsy, and Pinterest and grew at a blazing pace of over 5% week over week. Their Sales and Marketing budget at the time? $0 We covered the Clockwise story in detail here this week 👇 Here’s a growth story in just numbers: Paid subscribers in Dec 2020: ~250,000 Paid subscribers in Feb 2021: 500,000+ We’re talking about Substack, of course. Substack’s growing user base is symptomatic of a larger shift of power from legacy media corporations to the individual creator. From r/wallstreetbets to Joe Rogan and Salman Rushdie, we cover some ground in the latest podcast. 🎙 Tune in!
Fundraising, Venture Capital and Exits 🤑
HashiCorp's IPO will place it among the most richly valued open source tech companies tcrn.ch/3DkSZRf by @alex
Developer productivity startup Gadget raises $8.5M led by Sequoia and Bessemer tcrn.ch/3DzCr7R by @AiishaMalik1
I'm thrilled excited to announce that @circleapp has raised a $24.7m Series A led by Tiger Global at a $200m valuation!
This round will help us become the defacto all-in-one community platform for all creators and brands next year.
Here's the plan ⬇
Picsart acquires R&D company DeepCraft in seven-figure deal to aid video push tcrn.ch/3DbHR9b by @sarahintampa Launches, events, and releases 🎊
Polling + Scheduling: Together at last. ✨
We’re thrilled to announce that Meeting Polls are now available on all Calendly plans!
Simply offer times from your calendar for people to vote on and book the most popular time 📊🤝
bit.ly/3cZcNyv Live reaction from Calendly users everywhere: Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚Current VP of Sales at Figma, Kyle Parrish spent over five years at the OG of PLG: Dropbox. In this podcast, Kyle breaks down his entry into the world of Sales, how to create the sales playbook, non-obvious traits to look for in Sales hires, and more.
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