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David Cobb

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
153 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

And we believe as one company now, we are extremely well positioned to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

to undoubtedly lead this space of overall software testing, which is a $35 billion market.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

Historically, you saw a very successful company called Mercury Interactive that was acquired by HP in 2006.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

HP has owned them ever since.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

HP merged its software business with Micro Focus a year ago.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

And it's, again, public record that that business has been declining very rapidly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

So we're really well positioned to increase our market share each and every year and lead that category.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

Well, we had raised $47.5 million, and Tricentis has been around longer and is actually a large organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

So they've raised over $160 million with Insight.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

So every month that number will go up.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

So we're at about 145 now, employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

and about 648 customers as of this Monday.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

Sure, sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

Very, very relevant question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

Ultimately, what I think

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

have used as my guiding principles are some businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

And one in particular that I worked at years ago, I worked at a public company called Choice Point.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

And I saw a model there that I really saw was very successful where there was a CEO and a COO who were very complimentary and terrific business partners.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

And I saw that that combination, both of those guys, by the way, were terrific mentors of mine.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1355 QASymphony Tricentis Merged Entity $80-100 ARR Going After DevOps Pie

I saw that that combination was quite effective.