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Nathan Latka

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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I mean, I was hoping you had mentioned that Salesforce IPO-ed in 2006.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

So you could also argue where you were one of the original sort of SaaS models and eventually one of the original enterprise SaaS models.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Would you agree with that?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

You launched in 1999?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

We can quantify this, though, too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I mean, I love the story, but we can put real numbers behind this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

It's funny.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I mean, I'm looking here at your profile.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I mean, you launched at Series A or you closed Series A in 1999, not to date you at all, but 1999.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

That's right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

You're also one of the early uses that I see, I haven't seen many earlier than this, of debt financing to fund a SaaS company so you can preserve your equity as you go into a Series B and onwards.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

You ended up, I think, raising, what was the total raised at Coremetrics?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Oh, gosh, I would need to think about that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

I think it was close to $80 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

And are you able to share back in 08?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

This is crazy timing, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Remember guys, when I was in 08 in the financial markets, I think you closed your Series E then, it was for 60 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

Do you remember what that valuation was?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How Investors Bought 50% of Data.World with 2.1m free users, accounts at 31k paid seats

What year was that, Brett?