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

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Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. ” We could do it under the Qualtrics umbrella.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

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Then I went over to the sales department. The demo is the sale and we close everybody in month. When we actually did our market research, we found that 80% of physical therapists were still using and documenting on pen and paper back in 2007. The first thing you bring in your playbook on sales. He joined our board.

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