Ryan Smith, founder and CEO of Qualtrics, highlights enterprise and government use cases for Qualtrics' real-time data collection platform during a fireside chat at Data Driven NYC.
“We're powering all the feedback right now for healthcare.gov, right?”
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Ryan Smith: Qualtrics hit $50M revenue and $30M cash flow before raising capital
“I mean, we had fifty million dollars in revenue kicking off thirty million dollars in cash, which is very counterintuitive to what we see today. Very profitable before we took any outside funding.”
Ryan SmithApr 2, 2015▶ 4:05Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Ryan Smith: Qualtrics business quadrupled during the 2007–2009 recession
“In about 2007, 2008, 2009, when the economy went this way, our business quadrupled.”
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Insight
Ryan Smith: Enterprise software startups must win academics to drive adoption
“First of all, if you don't own the academic market or you're not indoctrinating academics with the product, it's going to be very difficult because they're leading.”
Ryan SmithApr 2, 2015▶ 9:07Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Opinion
Ryan Smith calls immediate pop-up website surveys the worst user experience
“I can't stand when you go visit a website and something pops up. Hey, how was your experience? It's like, leave me alone. I just got here. This is the worst user experience of all time. Right? And everyone's like, well, no, this is statistically significant. I…”
Ryan SmithApr 2, 2015▶ 24:21Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
Insight
Ryan Smith: Surveys are fundamentally forms with workflows around them
“That's surveys, it's just a form with a workflow around it”
Ryan SmithApr 2, 2015▶ 18:15Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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Ryan Smith: Mobile survey respondents answer significantly differently than PC users
“The mobile respondents feel totally different than the people taking it through, you know, their PC.”
Ryan SmithApr 2, 2015▶ 19:26Ryan Smith, Qualtrics // The Qualtrics Story // Data Driven NYC (FirstMark Capital)
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