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Most B2B SaaS founders think they need perfect product-market fit before scaling sales. This founder proved them wrong by hitting $10M ARR first.
Featuring Stijn Hendrikse, former CMO at Citrix ā who scaled multiple B2B companies from startup to IPO by building demand generation systems before achieving traditional PMF signals.
Jean-Michel and Stijn reveal why waiting for perfect product-market fit kills momentum, how to build a demand generation engine that works even with an imperfect product, and the specific metrics that actually predict B2B SaaS growth at scale. They cover the messaging framework that turned skeptical prospects into enterprise customers and why most founders confuse early customer feedback with real market validation.
š Scale revenue before perfecting product-market fit signals
š The 3 demand generation metrics that predict B2B growth
š¬ Messaging framework that converts skeptical enterprise buyers
šÆ Why customer feedback often misleads product decisions
š How to build sales systems that work with imperfect PMF
ā±ļø 00:00 Why perfect PMF is a scaling myth
04:30 Building demand gen systems with imperfect products
09:15 The messaging framework for skeptical enterprise buyers
15:20 Three metrics that actually predict B2B growth
20:45 Common PMF mistakes that kill momentum
26:10 From startup confusion to IPO-ready systems
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