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

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And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: So the first media interview or press release we did, we said, “Hey, we’re raising a series A round, and Julie Bort from Business Insider got on the phone and was like, “How old are you? Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see.