Brett Hurt
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And the thing that I love about that is that- How big though, Brett, was it?
I think it was like 20-ish percent that we had given to employees.
And the thing that's amazing about that is that it led to over 60 companies started by former Bizarre Voice people.
That's how big of an exit it was and how much wealth it created.
And I'm a capitalist and that ripple effect
Capitalist impact is very real in terms of what happens with nonprofits, what happens with people starting their own businesses, the type of know-how they get to create great cultures.
As I mentioned, Bizarre Voice was the top-rated company.
Data.World is rated in the top three companies to work for in Boston.
Yeah, we launched in, well, we founded in 2015 and we launched Data.World.
It's Data.World, by the way.
I always pronounce the dot.
But we launched on July 11th of 2016 on Slurpee Day, which we didn't really expect it was going to be on 7-11.
But that turns out that was Slurpee Day.
But that was a great launch.
And we've now become the world's largest collaborative data community
for open data sets.
And then we have a for-profit division of the company, which is focused on the data catalog industry.
And we've been a great disruptor there in a very similar way, by the way, to Core Metrics, if you go all the way back to 99, because we're competing here primarily against Alation and Calibra, which are both primarily on-prem.
Most of the revenue comes from on-prem.
And they come out with a couple of releases a year.