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Guys, Brett Hurt, his fourth company, Core Metrics, launched in 1999.

He left in 2005 after the company broke $30 million in revenue.

And in 2010, the company sold for $300 million to IBM.

That was his first sort of big cash day.

But he left actually earlier in 2005 and launched with one of his friends, Brandt, Bizarre Voice, which ended up growing to $100 million in revenue, spending just $13 million to get there and a billion-dollar IPO, very capital-efficient.

obviously bizarre voice taken private 2018 by marlin and other stuff has happened since then but now brett's focus is data dot world competing with calibra really a large-scale wide-spreading data platform very opposite of the capital efficiency of his earlier companies he had to spend well not spend but raise over 53 million dollars of capital before his first dollar of revenue at data world but now scaling team of 150 50 engineers focused on efficiency and scaling in a good way he's written about his success and his book the entrepreneurs essentials which i encourage all of you guys

to check out hey folks my guest today is brett hurt he's the ceo of data.world the enterprise data catalog for the modern data stack he's also the co-founder of hurt family investments brett has co-founded and led bazaar voice through an ipo as well as core metrics which is acquired by ibm he is a henry clown fellow and his book is called the entrepreneurs essentials all right you ready to take us to the top

Yeah, let's go for it.

So take us back to Bizarre Voice first.

People always go, man, you know, oh, Brady started his first company.

It does well.

He IPOs it.

But you've got, you know, do you have any stories before that where things crash and burn?

So- Hey guys, if you're driving and listening, the cover is a green cover.

If you're looking it up on Amazon, the Entrepreneur's Essentials, you can look up and we'll certainly link to that in the show notes and promote this and we send it out.

But that's great.

Give us the, on Bazaar Voice, just give us some of the snippets real quick.

So like what year did you launch the business?