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Smith claims every higher education institution worldwide uses Qualtrics
“It's just not a good business model, but if you look at it now, every single academic higher ed institution in the world uses Qualtrics.”
Qualtrics adds one million trained academic users each year
“We have a million academic users that are popping out annually, and throughout the course of time, everyone's getting trained on our product and our platform.”
Qualtrics reached nearly $50M revenue with 50% profit margins while bootstrapped
“We were close to coming up on fifty million dollars in, in sales and, you know, 50% profit margins, a hundred percent bootstrap.”
Qualtrics' 2012 Series A was the largest first-time VC investment since 2008
“And it was the largest series a or first time investment since 2008.”
Ryan Smith: Jared Smith managed eight executives at WordPerfect aged 18
“He started working at WordPerfect as a product guy at 16, and he had to, you know, he had to figure it out. Like, he was a whiz kid. He was managing a team of eight executives at 18 years old”
Smith: Qualtrics was cash flow positive from inception
“We, we've been cashflow positive from the beginning”