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Moore: Crossbeam's most requested feature was integrating with its main rival, Reveal
“The number one requested feature throughout all of Crossbeam was for us to integrate with Reveal and to support the companies that were on the Reveal network.”
Moore: RJMetrics essentially combined early versions of Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, and Looker
“RJ Metrics was Fivetran, Snowflake, DBT, and Looker. All together in one product. We built all four of those products in order to build RJ Metrics.”
Moore: RJMetrics alumni later founded prominent data companies dbt, Stitch, and Omni
“The three co-founders of DBT all worked at RJ Metrics. The founders of Stitch, myself and Jake, which became the early competitor to Fivetran and played in that space. Omni, which is a hot new ticket in the BI space, their founding CTO, Chris Merrick, was our …”
Moore: Stitch matched RJMetrics' eight-year revenue run in 19 months without capital
“So Stitch never raised any additional outside capital. We basically like landed the plane of creating a really good home for RJ, bankrolling Stitch, creating a little bit of outcome for folks that had been involved in the RJ journey along the way. And then we …”
Moore: 70% of Crossbeam sign-ups came via invites from existing users
“Seven out of every 10 of those companies that signed up for the platform signed up because they were invited in by somebody else who was already on that.”
Moore: Crossbeam raised $100M and rival Reveal raised $50M during ZIRP
“Where we had raised, you know, a hundred million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz and others during the Zerp era, they raised fifty million dollars from Insight Partners and others during the Zerp era.”
Moore: RJMetrics growth plummeted from 100% to 10% amid high churn
“The business had gone from a hundred percent to 10% growth and it had a churn problem.”
Moore: Former rival Looker became Stitch Data's biggest referral partner
“Looker, who used to be our biggest competitor over at RJ, started becoming our biggest refer of business at Stitch because the Looker sales reps knew if they were going to close a deal, Their client wanted to see all the dashboards they cared about in the demo…”
Moore: Crossbeam Grew from 5 to 30 Companies via Early Partner Invites
“I manually got five on, and then that five led to 15. What was amazing was of those 15, 10 of them invited another three on, and then we got 30, right? And then like this incredible viral loop started before we had even started optimizing on the way to drive v…”