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Anthropic Raises $45B but Falls Short on Compute & Thoma Bravo Hand Back Medallia Keys to Creditors · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 30, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 1:15:38 Jason Lemkin But when Ryan Smith sold Qualtrics, I think he made about a billion dollars. 2 times in the scene

Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Apr 23, 2026 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:19 Jason Lemkin This might be, and I remember back in the day at Saster Annual, Ryan Smith came and, um, Qualtrics had just been acquired for seven billion and our jaws dropped back then. 2 times in the scene

Why You Need a $1B Fund To Do Series A | SpaceX at $2TRN & Data Centers in Space | Groq's $20BN Deal · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 26, 2026 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 31:57 unnamed speaker and I saw Ryan Smith yesterday. 4 times in the scene

Zachary Bookman: Why Valuations and Fundraising are BS | E1235 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 6, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:30 Harry Stebbings And I mean this in the nicest way, but like, you know, I interviewed Ryan from Qualtrics, and he's like, yep, I remember when the cash just went thud.

Frank Quattrone: Lessons from 650 M&A Deals Worth Over $1TRN & Taking Amazon and Cisco Public| E1121 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Mar 1, 2024 · 10 mentions

  • ▶ 25:54 Frank Quattrone Um, you know, I'll give you an example of, you know, Ryan Smith Qualtrics, right? 10 times in the scene

Ben Chestnut: Why I Sold MailChimp; How My Kids Found Out I Was a Billionaire | E959 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings Dec 12, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 43:29 Harry Stebbings I had Ryan Smith on the show from Qualtrics and he, he talked about his relationship to money when he sold Qualtrics and, you know, became a billionaire.

20VC: The Crowdstrike Memo: Accel's Sameer Gandhi on Leading Multiple Internal Rounds for Crowdstrike, Telling George Kurtz to Go Shop His Term Sheet, How To Think Through Market Sizing & The Importance of Speed of Execution and Knowing When To Go Slow To Sep 2, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:58 Sameer Gandhi But if you're George or someone like that, or Stuart at Slack or Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, you know, or

20VC: a16z's David George on Leading a16z's Growth Fund Today, The Biggest Misconceptions of Growth Investing, How a16z Think Through Portfolio Construction, Investment Decision-Making and Scenario Planning & How The Entrance of New Players Has Changed Th Jul 19, 2021 · 3 mentions

20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour Nov 16, 2020 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 12:14 Stewart Butterfield With a group of CEOs, um, and among them was, uh, Ryan Smith from Qualtrics, and he just bought the Utah Jazz, and I was teasing him a little bit, you know, like, you're a little, like, young to be a professional sports team owner. 3 times in the scene

20VC: Why The Unbundling of Fintech Will Continue, How VCs Are Propping Up The Neo-Banking Industry & Why We Need A New Framework To Value Businesses Today with Clay Wilkes, Founder & CEO @ Galileo Jul 31, 2020 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Prior to their reported 1.2 billion dollar acquisition by SoFi, Clay raised just eighty six million dollars in funding with Galileo from the likes of Excel and Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, having run the company as a profitable company before…
  • ▶ 17:32 Clay Wilkes Speaking to Ryan Smith, I mean, same thing, very much a bootstrapped

20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards Jun 15, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 28:57 Harry Stebbings Can I ask, it was Ryan Smith from Qualtrics who said on the show that when it comes to kind of CEO decisions, it's the number of at-bats that you get that is most important.

20VC: Sequoia's Pat Grady on What Sequoia Is Focused On Today, How Sequoia Think About Investment Decision-Making Processes & Why It Is Important To Trade A Few Points of Efficiency for Culture When It Comes To Attribution Jul 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 23:46 Pat Grady And at the end of the day, Ryan Smith and Jared Smith 2 times in the scene

20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years Dec 4, 2017 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 6:43 Rich Wong Hiding in Salt Lake, you didn't think that there was going to be a multi-billion dollar company in the area of market research surveys, but we were lucky enough to find that company relatively early on and spend the time building…

20VC: Garry Tan on The Biggest Takeaways From Advising 700 Companies @ Y Combinator & Why Now Is The Golden Age For The Early Stage? Dec 14, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 29:42 Harry Stebbings As always, I so appreciate your support, and I cannot wait to bring you Friday's episode with Unicorn founder Ryan Smith at Qualtrics.
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