Brett Hurt

a centralized multi-tenant kind of SaaS model would be.

But those terms, again, didn't exist back then.

And I was like, look, I'm going to be able to upgrade it for our customers all the time.

And they were like, but there's already two public companies that one's worth a billion, one's worth 2 billion.

And they're on-prem and it seems like everybody's going to want their data on-prem.

And I was like, but I'm going to be able to release software so much faster than them.

And I've talked with almost all of their customers and they're all hating on them.

Most of them haven't deployed.

The ones that have told me that it took 12 to 18 months.

You're going to be able to deploy this in weeks.

And the rest is history.

I mean, poor metrics just blew past those companies, really disrupted them.

No, that's actually incorrect.

I was already at Bizarre Voice at the time.

So I got Core Metrics to a point where I felt very, very confident that it was going to be successful.

And then I just felt like the timing for Bizarre Voice was too compelling and I wanted to move on to my next project.

That was 2005.

So I remained on the board of Coremetrics for a period of time and loved the company, loved the people there.

And then it exited to IBM for around $300 million in 2010.

And that was my first significant exit, but it was two years before Bizarre Voice went public