Nicholas
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Podcast Appearances
And we're doing well.
We have a freemium product.
We're still growing.
And then I found that a company in San Francisco started before me and thought that it's such a good idea to do this smart capture of data that they're going to go and disrupt Salesforce.
And I thought, what a stupid idea.
That's what my thinking is.
That's not what Kleiner Perkins thought, because they gave them 10 million, and shortly after, Accel gave them 40 million.
That company is called RelateIQ, that most of you have heard of.
Then some VP at Salesforce decide to buy Implicit, my competitor, and I'm thinking, fuck.
They bought my competitor.
How am I going to do?
And as I'm kind of...
Recovering from that information, I hear that Mark Benioff bought Relata-IQ for $400 million and incorporated Relata-IQ in the company.
So at the time I had raised Ian Joel money,
1.7 million to do that company.
And all my angels call me and say, you're fucked.
We put it in French.
They've put 430 million to acquire your capabilities.
You think you're going to win?
And so that's when I called Alina to the rescue.