Godard Abel

Thank you.

You all can be.

But, you know, we do work with 3,000 software vendors now, including Henry and ZoomInfo, but, you know, to help them, and obviously G2 in some ways is like Yelp.

You can be our, for free, you can be number one.

Very committed to that.

If you have the best reviews and most reviews, like Slack has been number one on G2 for many years.

They've never paid us a penny, to my frustration.

But then we try to upsell Slack and other premium marketing tools that hopefully help you drive more growth.

So it's really exciting to see G2 coming to life and hope to work with all of you to validate your apps and help you become the leader in 12 months, not in 12 years.

And what have we learned?

So number one, what have we learned about growth?

Then I want to talk a little bit about what we've learned about talent.

And finally, what are some of the great lessons I've learned from Mark Benioff and others?

And so number one, ride big waves.

And I think we're really lucky we're all riding this wave, software's eating the world.

Mark Andreessen said this in 2012, right when we were starting G2.

And I think it's been so true.

And the beauty of it is, I think it's going to continue.

So I've been really lucky.

My whole career, 20 plus years, has been in the software industry and it's just been growing.