Alex Kayyal (@alexkayyal) 's Twitter Profile
Alex Kayyal

@alexkayyal

Partner at @lightspeedvp focused on SaaS. Frmr managing partner at @SalesforceVC. Backed co's like @algolia @contentful @Gong_io @MiroHQ @snyksec @TheTradeDesk

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Looking forward to chatting with Raj Dutt (Raj Dutt), founder/CEO of Grafana at SaaStrEuropa 💫 today! Come check it out, should be a good one! And thanks to Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin for another great community gathering 🙏

Looking forward to chatting with Raj Dutt (<a href="/nopzor/">Raj Dutt</a>), founder/CEO of <a href="/grafana/">Grafana</a> at <a href="/saastreuropa/">SaaStrEuropa 💫</a> today! Come check it out, should be a good one! 

And thanks to <a href="/jasonlk/">Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin</a> for another great community gathering 🙏
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Good outcome for WalkMe. As a public company they were struggling to grow and had a sub-scale market cap (~$850M). We will likely see more of this happen. Interesting that SAP is paying a 45% premium. techcrunch.com/2024/06/05/sap… via @techcrunch

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So great chatting with Raj Dutt, founder/CEO of Grafana at SaaStrEuropa 💫 ! 3 key insights on the path to $250M+ ARR: 1) Find small ways to celebrate the role that non-sales people have in winning deals — whether that be engineers, lawyers, or anyone else at the company that

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Life lessons from Roger Federer (must watch) 1 Effortless is a myth 2 Belief in yourself has to be earned 3 Grit > Gift 4 Discipline is talent 5 Trust and loving the process is talent 6 You can do your best and still lose 7 Life is bigger than the court

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My partner Raviraj Jain shares why we're on the verge of a ChatGPT moment for robots and why we're so excited to have backed Skild AI from day 1 at Lightspeed. More below 👇

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Congrats to all the #Cloud100 winners! Feel very lucky to have worked with some of the best including Miro, Snyk, AppsFlyer, Gong, Forter, Razorpay, Algolia & Contentful AI is going to unlock an even bigger opportunity -- exciting times ahead!

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My partner Guru Chahal 🇺🇸 leading a fascinating conversation with Anthropic co-founder and President, Daniela Amodei. Tons of insights on how to scale, hiring the best people, the path to AGI, and why trust and safety are so critical. Thank you Daniela! 🙏

My partner <a href="/guruchahal/">Guru Chahal 🇺🇸</a> leading a fascinating conversation with <a href="/AnthropicAI/">Anthropic</a> co-founder and President, <a href="/DanielaAmodei/">Daniela Amodei</a>. Tons of insights on how to scale, hiring the best people, the path to AGI, and why trust and safety are so critical. Thank you Daniela! 🙏
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The rise of LLMs is unlocking huge opportunities in enterprise automation. Workflows will soon be 10x smarter, as AI empowers businesses to build intelligent agents that adapt, reason and seamlessly handle unstructured data. At Lightspeed, we're excited to back founders

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So excited that Lightspeed is partnering with Tennr! Earlier this week we announced we led their $37M Series B. And today The Information called them one of the 50 most promising startups of 2024. 🚀 Check out our thesis here 👇 lsvp.com/stories/invest…

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Great thread on the future of software. AI native applications will certainly be the next frontier for SaaS. And yet, most companies will prefer to buy such technology from vendors as opposed to DIY and build in-house. This represents a tremendous opportunity for startups today

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I came to the US on an F-1 student visa. Since then, I’ve built a company worth over $20 billion—headquartered in Pennsylvania. Student visas are one of America’s greatest talent funnels. Let’s not close the door behind us.

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Sharing an update on Figma: we publicly filed our S-1 with the SEC today, and have applied to list on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “FIG.” figma.com/blog/s1-public

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Congrats rahulvohra and thank you for building such a wonderful product!! I use Superhuman every day and can’t imagine a world without it. Excited to see what this combination with Grammarly will bring