Ryan Smith
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1,979 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 30 Jun
Ryan Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They lost by, like, 40 a game the last five weeks.
Yeah.
You know what happened?
It happened.
She wearing hollies?
Is that what I saw?
Top Founders · 931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public? · 10 Feb 2018
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I had no money when I started the company.
Let's go.
Yeah, I think this is an interesting point where people don't probably understand what drives them on one angle and also how long they're going to work for.
And I was pretty clear that I knew that I'm going to work until I'm 80 years old.
And so if you actually think about what you would do if you sold your company, and mind you, it's my dad, my brother, and myself.
And it's like grab your coat and go home.
It was that kind of an offer.
I think you really got to say, hey, what am I going to do next?
And I remember getting in a car with my wife and driving on a four-hour drive.
We got about 30 minutes.
And she's like, Ryan, I don't need you around the house more.
This isn't going to do you any good.
And by the way, like the path of least resistance is to go build Qualtrics.
And so, you know, obviously we were pretty bullish on it becoming a multi-billion dollar platform.
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