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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

Trey Lockerbie- This is incredible.

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

So do you remember, you said you left in Coremetrics quote when you felt it was comfortable, quantified in terms of revenue.

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 ARR in 2005?

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

And do you remember what it scaled to five years later in 2010 before the acquisition?

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

I don't.

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

Okay.

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 basically, also that takes a lot of discipline.

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, this thing, it's growing and it's 30 million ARR.

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

You go, man, I'm just feeling so compelled by this bizarre voice thing.

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

Did you have trusted lieutenants at CoreMetrics, maybe co-founders, and that sort of gave you extra comfort to leave?

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

Yeah.

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

Hey, I want to move forward here.

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

I have another minute on Bazaar Voice and then spend the rest of the time on your new company, Data World, which we're all excited about.

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

On Bazaar Voice though, so Brant and you are getting together.

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

One question I always get from listeners is, Nathan, I've got a great co-founder, but we haven't had the tough equity conversation.

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

And they always end up just saying 50-50, which I go, man, was it really lazy?

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

They just didn't want to have the tough conversations.

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

So they said 50-50.

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

How did you guys do that?

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

Did you and Brett just split it 50-50 or how'd you have that conversation?