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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

I've had a lot of cameras inside me and you just don't want to know how they got there.

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

And so-

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

So it really, for me, was a life-changing experience in a lot of ways in that the bullhorn thing made it so I didn't really care about money.

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

The cancer made it so that I really didn't care about anything that didn't give me purpose, that I didn't love.

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

And I really came to this honest moment where I was like, I work because I love to work.

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

I love building things.

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

I don't do it.

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

for the money.

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

The money's great.

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

Who cares about the money, though?

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

It's like, I'm doing this because I want to make sure that people don't have to suffer through bad releases.

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

That really bugged me.

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

I hated that.

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

And so that and then

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

I started saying, okay, what am I going to be grateful for today?

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

What is it that makes me happy?

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

The biggest thing that I loved about Capato was I was able to recruit 15 people from job science who quit what they were doing and were like, we want to work with you again.

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

I remember I was on the gurney at MD Anderson getting my first round of chemo.

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

And I get this text message from this woman who worked for me, who works for Goldhorn now, didn't know I had cancer.

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

And she said, I just want to tell you, we never got to say goodbye when you went to job science.