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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

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I started a software company in college to make it easy to update websites called Content Management Software Now, and I had this idea for Pardot, I wanted to make it easy for marketers to run campaigns online and measure their results. We started the business in 2007. From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable.

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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. I don’t think we thought we were going to do a startup. What we do is we help companies close the experience gap. Ryan Smith: No.