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Alex Schutman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
230 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

I am not the founder.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

The founder is Scott Johnson, and he is still the chairman of the board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

I was not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

No, I did not come in through a VC firm.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And I did not come in in a funding round.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Scott is a guy and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And awesome as the chairman of the board.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And, you know, I think he just decided that the company had some amazing growth in front of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So I was at a company called Eloqua.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

That was a marketing automation company that I got to serve as the president, not as the CEO there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

And then prior to coming to Workfront, I served as the president of a company called Aptio that recently went public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Once again, there was a founder CEO at Aptio and I served with him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

That's Sonny Gupta was the founder CEO at Aptio.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

The company is a SaaS company, and we sell an enterprise application platform for people to manage modern work.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

What we see happen in companies today is there is a lot of complex work that requires collaboration between folks all over the organization, knowledge workers all over the organization, and people just struggle getting their work done, and they don't actually have

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

a platform that they go to work in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

So people that use Workfront, when they go to work, they go to work in Workfront.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
922 SaaS: Is $120m ARR Workfront About to IPO?

Actually, the way that you should think about it is if you think about the DNA of work, the DNA of work, any kind of knowledge work that you do, it's got three elements to it.

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