Mehta: Gainsight CEO hopes to take the company public
Nick Mehta · 20VC's Therapist Thursday: We Are Not All Crushing It All The Time So Let's Stop Pretending, Working Through Challenges of Self-Worth and Self-Doubt & How To Find Joy in the Striving with Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight · Jul 15, 2021 · at 42:54
Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, discusses his personal and professional goals for the next five years on 20VC.
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“I would love to take Gainsight public because, and I have no idea if it will happen or not, but because, I mean, certainly there's an ego part of it. There's a part that I really believe in our business and I want to do it.”
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