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Ryan Smith

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
313 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

Mulesoft did it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And you're able to offer secondary to employees, let a little bit of air out of the bubble and say, hey, let's regroup.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

For sure.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

I mean, look, there hasn't been an IPO...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

Like what Qualtrics would be in the state of Utah, most of our employees haven't gone through that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And I think that there's way too much pressure built in the system.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And kind of with an economic makeup that we have at Qualtrics where we're cash flow positive, we've always been, it was really nice to be able to say, hey, here's an opportunity to have some liquidity and kind of get acclimated a little bit to what life is going to be like for a lot of people.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

Not really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

I mean, you never know what the markets are going to do.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

I think that it's been it's been interesting to to watch companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

I have friends who, you know, called me on Wednesday of the roadshow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

They're going out on Thursday and they don't think they're going to get above their their valuation.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And then on Friday, it's double what they thought.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And then a week later, it's even bigger than that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And I was like, whoa, here you are on the roadshow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

You're the CEO and you were only 60 percent off.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

60% off what was going to happen a week later.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

And everyone's trying to say, this is what we're worth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

I was like, you have no idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public?

I think, look, we could have raised it a lot more than that, which any great company can if they want to optimize for that.