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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? What we do is we help companies close the experience gap. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

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Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. * How does David think about scaling sales teams? Three of these companies went public.

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