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Prime Venture Partners PodcastWhy Private Equity Paid $8.4 BILLION for Smartsheet | Prime Venture Partners Podcast💡 How do you scale a SaaS company from SMB customers to billion-dollar enterprise deals?In this Prime Venture Partners Podcast episode, we sit down with Praerit Garg, President of Product & Innovation at Smartsheet, to uncover the secrets of scaling SaaS, AI’s role in work management, and the game-changing lessons from Smartsheet’s journey.⏳ Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction 01:28 - Praerit Garg’s Career Journey: From Microsoft → AWS → Smartsheet04:46 - What is Smartsheet? How It Serves SMBs & Enterprises07:11 - The Land & Expand Strategy: How Smartsheet Scaled Enterprise Deals...
2025-03-1943 minPrime Venture Partners PodcastWhy Private Equity Paid $8.4 BILLION for Smartsheet | Prime Venture Partners Podcast💡 How do you scale a SaaS company from SMB customers to billion-dollar enterprise deals?In this Prime Venture Partners Podcast episode, we sit down with Praerit Garg, President of Product & Innovation at Smartsheet, to uncover the secrets of scaling SaaS, AI’s role in work management, and the game-changing lessons from Smartsheet’s journey.⏳ Timestamps:00:00 - Introduction 01:28 - Praerit Garg’s Career Journey: From Microsoft → AWS → Smartsheet04:46 - What is Smartsheet? How It Serves SMBs & Enterprises07:11 - The Land & Expand Strategy: How Smartsheet Scaled Enterprise Deals...
2025-03-1943 min
Shift AI PodcastHow AI is Making Work Manageable with Smartsheet's President of Product Praerit Garg In this episode of the Shift AI Podcast, Praerit Garg, President of Product and Innovation at Smartsheet, joins host Boaz Ashkenazy to explore how AI is revolutionizing enterprise work management. From his journey through Microsoft and AWS to leading innovation at Smartsheet, Garg shares insights into how generative AI is transforming how organizations handle complex workflows and make data-driven decisions. Learn how Smartsheet is using AI to simplify formula creation, automate data analysis, and empower business users to work more efficiently. If you're interested in how AI is reshaping enterprise productivity and the future of work, you won't want...
2025-01-2234 min
From Startup to ExitFounding Smartsheet and its vision: Conversation w/ Praerit Garg, President of Product & InnovationSend us a textSmartsheet is a major success story for the Seattle Tech ecosystem. Smartsheet was founded in 2005 as a workplace management system based on a spreadsheet style architecture. In this episode, Praerit Garg (PG) talks about the early product vision for Smartsheet. How, unlike dedicated product management tools like Asana, Smartsheet is very flexible and adapts to a number of workplace management scenarios. PG discusses the new product innovations that Smartsheet has introduced based on AI. As a startup founder himself, PG shares some of the key lessons that he learned in starting a startup.
2024-12-0255 min
Digital Marketing TodayMastering Change: Insights and Innovations in Digital Marketing Digital Marketing Today: Innovations & Techniques Welcome to Digital Marketing Today Innovations and Techniques in the World of Digital Marketing In the latest segment of Digital Marketing Today, dive into the most cutting-edge developments transforming the landscape of digital marketing. Join industry experts as they discuss the fusion of marketing prowess and technological innovation. This Episode Features: The transformative power of a Customer Data Platform (CDP) with insights from Miguel Llorca of Torrent Group. Ari Kahn's emphasis on a metrics-driven approach to lead-generation with Bridgeline Digital. An exploration of how tech team insights...
2024-02-2704 min
Venturis Stories: Navigating the Art of Product ThinkingEpisode6: Venturis Stories: Praerit Garg - Business is a Team SportIn this podcast episode, Praerit Greg, Chief Product Officer and EVP of Engineering at Smartsheet, discusses the impact of generative AI and customer focus. He emphasizes the importance of understanding customer pain points and using technology to address their needs. Praerit also shares his approach to balancing his role as a technologist with being customer-centric, highlighting the importance of creating human impact. The conversation touches on the importance of diversity of thought in building a complementary team. The episode explores Praerit's Growth Mindset and how he looks for books that he terms as “framebreakers” when building his reading list. We d...
2023-10-0119 min
Venturis Stories: Navigating the Art of Product ThinkingEpisode5: Venturis Stories: Praerit Garg - Career Journey and the elusive “product culture”In this episode, Praerit shares his career journey starting from BITS, Pilani, the fictitious “P&G Software”, Purdue, Microsoft, the first entrepreneurial foray and the associated learnings through Symform, going back to a larger company like AWS and currently at SmartSheet. We talk about the Product Culture, Bootstrap Mentality and Servant Leadership as the key recipe for the elusive “product culture”. You will learn about “mental models”. Come back and Tune in for the concluding part of this conversation in our next episode - it only gets better :)
2023-10-0118 min