Xero

“In New Zealand, even, we did our first Kiwi investment this year, a company called Xero.”

“We actually added more small business, small businesses globally to our brand, And Intuit added to their brand last year, and they spent 1.2 billion to do it”

“We've you know, we've got 25% of all New Zealand businesses, 25% of all Australian businesses, and we're a leader there.”

“We did our IPO first. Then we brought in the hedge funds, who, because of the compression in the US market with BC's doing most of the big deals, the private, the hedge fund guys, sorry, had to go out and find global deals. And then it's only really recently t…”

“So in the last 12 months, we've processed over three hundred billion dollars of transactions, and already we have over 600,000 paying customers. We're just passing two hundred million annualized run rate.”

“We're a leader in the UK, and we've beaten Sage to the cloud”

“So we raised fifteen million dollars at a fifty-five million dollar valuation, which some people thought, ah, was crazy, but, you know, now, even in this depressed, crazy market time, you know, in a short time, ah, our company's worth over two billion dollars.”

“We compete with, you know, three, well, two, two mainly really large companies, but three companies around the world, Sage in the UK, NYB in this part of the world, and Intuit in the US, and none of those are founder-led companies, and there's very few founder…”

“Melio gets acquired for 2.5 billion. Look, that's a lot of money by, you know, hopefully folks will watch this and mock me for like not thinking that's a lot of money. It's a lot of money. But guys, they're at one hundred and fifty three million in AR growing …”