Watching a procurement team in Columbus go from 11 vendors to 2 in under a year
I sat in on a call last Tuesday with a mid-market buyer who flat out said they cut their software list from 11 tools down to 2 because their ops lead got tired of juggling logins. Curious if other founders here are seeing buyers consolidate like this, or if it is just the folks I happen to run into.
11 vendors down to 2 is wild. The part that gets me is it happened in under a year. I get cutting some tools but going from 11 to 2 feels like they tossed stuff the team actually needed just to make logins easier. That ops lead must have had some serious pull to make that call stick. I bet half those 9 tools are creeping back in through some other budget line by next quarter.