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Founder-Led Sales: Landing Instacart & LinkedIn Without a Sales Team | Nexla

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Ever wondered how a startup with zero sales reps landed giants like Instacart and LinkedIn? On this episode of the SaaS Podcast, host Omar Khan sits down with Saket Sohrab, co-founder of Nexla, to unpack the unconventional founder-led sales journey that took Nexla from scrappy beginnings to serving over 50 enterprise customers.

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To build a company, it takes a builder, a seller, and a profit—and scaling happens when you reach that profit moment, where people start to follow your vision.

SaketThe SaaS Podcast · 5:36
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5:36Saket

One of my seed investors tweets told me that to build a company, it takes a builder, a seller and a profit. And in those three stages.

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Saket Sohrab, co-founder of Nexla, joins host Omar Khan to share how Nexla landed enterprise customers like Instacart and LinkedIn without a dedicated sales team. The episode covers founder-led sales strategies, navigating enterprise contracts, and building a cash-flow positive SaaS business from the ground up.

Saket explains how Nexla solves the challenge of fragmented enterprise data by unifying disparate systems, formats, and models for point-of-use access, increasingly serving AI agents as data consumers.

Contrary to typical SaaS go-to-market strategies, Saket describes why Nexla bypassed SMBs to focus on large enterprises from day one, despite lacking initial customers or credibility.

Founder-led sales and authentic learning conversations can help even first-time SaaS founders win major enterprise deals and scale efficiently.

To build a company, it takes a builder, a seller, and a profit—and scaling happens when you reach that profit moment, where people start to follow your vision.
Pull quote · Saket · from 5:36
Most founders would probably have said, okay, going to sell this to SMBs first. You did the opposite. You started with enterprise, you got traction there, and now you're expanding out into SMBs.
Pull quote · Omar · from 11:39

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How I Landed Instacart & LinkedIn Without a Sales Team

Ever wondered how a startup can win enterprise giants like Instacart and LinkedIn—without a sales team? As Nexla’s founder, I’ve lived it firsthand. My path started as an engineer at Nvidia, then pivoted into entrepreneurship, building products and scaling teams.

In this episode, I share the real story behind Nexla’s growth: why deeply understanding the fragmented world of enterprise data is the key to unlocking huge opportunities. One of my seed investors told me, building a company takes a builder, a seller, and a profit moment. For us, that ‘profit moment’ happened when we solved the tough data connectivity problems big companies face—making their scattered data usable for real business needs.

With just under 100 people and over 50 enterprise customers (including DoorDash, LinkedIn, and Autodesk), our approach proves that being close to the problem—and your users—matters more than a traditional sales org.

If you’re a founder or operator looking to scale, or just curious about what it really takes, I think you’ll find this episode insightful.

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