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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

He was the CTO of HomeAway before.

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 been a real joy to mentor him and really just awesome to see how well that company is doing.

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

And they're also a proud B Corp.

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

When we became a B Corp in Austin, there were six companies that followed us and made that move.

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

And I know they did because I talked with their CEOs about it when we made that move and they asked me, why are we doing this?

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

I really believe that's the next stage of capitalism, capitalism 2.0.

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

I've got to say that it is becoming very quickly GitHub Copilot.

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

just because the way it leverages OpenAI's codecs and the way it's lifting all of our productivity on the engineering side, which is, as you know, a very high cost part of any business, and it's turning our engineers into superpowers.

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

So I love that technology.

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

Married for 27 years.

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

And my wife is my investing partner.

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

We've invested in over 130 startups in the past 12 years.

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 in 40 VC funds as well.

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

So we have our own family office, as you mentioned at the top.

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

And we have two kids.

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

Our daughter is 18 and she's going off to Tulane University in the fall.

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

That was her dream school.

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

And our son is 13.

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

We have his bar mitzvah in Israel this year in June, which we can't wait for.

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

Oh, gosh.