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Brett Hurt

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
256 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

But yeah, that's now over 2.1 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Yes, that's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Yeah, that's not something I'm going to disclose.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

You're like a VC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

This is like, if you're going to write me a hundred million dollar check, then I'll disclose some of these things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

It's all in my book, The Entrepreneur's Essentials.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I talk about specifically how to build the sales team, how to do it in a capital efficient way, how to structure your culture, how to hire, how to ultimately come up with the right business model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

So everything about that is in our book.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

There are numbers in the book for companies that have either sold or gone public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I love Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker because it's so data-driven and really makes you optimistic for the future and takes chapter-by-chapter issues like inequality or food or energy or anything you're worried about and shows you the no BS data throughout human history to show you that the world is actually progressing in a really beautiful way overall versus the fear-mongering that goes on pretty constantly out there.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I think Ross Berdorf is incredible.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

We're investors in his company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

They recently closed around at $1.7 billion and they're disrupting LegalZoom.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

And it's an interesting story because it's his first time in the COC.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Zen Business.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Yep.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Go ahead.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

It's his first time in the CEO seat.