Godard Abel

But they're just slow.

Because I remember my first company, Big Machines, it took me nine years to get into Gartner Report and 12 years to become the leader.

Now, how many of you want to wait 12 years to become a leader?

I paid them a lot, too.

I probably wasn't good enough at kissing my analyst's ass.

That was a part I also hated.

And frankly, what I love doing, I love talking to customers.

And that was really the idea for G2.

Like, let's not have some analysts that can't eat the food.

You know, it's like a restaurant critic that literally can't eat the food, right?

The analyst can't use the software.

And they just stand outside the restaurant asking other people, how was your meal?

And I'd rather ask the people eating the meal, right?

And that's why we said it's kind of a Yelp for business software when we started.

And let's give the power to the customer and the user.

So that was our inspiration.

And it was really exciting to see G2 coming to life.

We did become a unicorn last year.

So that was one of my unfulfilled dreams as an entrepreneur.

But my next unfulfilled dream, I do want to be like Henry.