Nathan Latka

Last question.

Take us home here.

Something you wish you knew when you were 20.

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, who was our 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 in 2018 by Marlin and other stuff has happened since then.

But now Brett's focus is data.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 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 Entrepreneur's Essentials, which I encourage all of you guys to check out.

Brett Hurt, thank you for taking us to the top.

Yeah, thank you so much.

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