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

SaaStr

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. And the team deck doesn’t say who the CEO is? Ryan Smith: No.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept.