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Ted Elliott

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
534 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And I'm like, you know, I'm going to Australia for a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

I'm not even sure we're coming back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And I'll come to dinner.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And we went to dinner and started talking to the guys.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And they're like, we make it so that deployments don't blow up on Salesforce.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And I was like, yeah, right.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

Tell me more, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And by the end of dinner, I was like, can I invest in this company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And they're like, no, you can't invest in our company unless you give us advice and we get to know you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

So then the entire rest of the week that they were in San Francisco, we were basically going to dinner, going to lunch, hanging out, learning about the product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And I ended up going to Australia and said, here's my cell phone number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

If you need anything, call me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

I'm happy to be a resource for you.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And they called me and they said, Salesforce is offering to buy us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

What do you think we should do?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And I'm like, well, is it a good deal?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And they're like, it's a great deal.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

But we didn't listen.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

This was in 2018.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
DevOps Tool Copado Breaks $400m Valuation, as New CEO Ushers in 100% YoY Growth with Founders

And they said, but we think this is going to be really big.