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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 Smith: Qualtrics business quadrupled during the 2007–2009 recession
“In about 2007, 2008, 2009, when the economy went this way, our business quadrupled.”
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 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 Smith: Qualtrics powers user feedback for Healthcare.gov
“We're powering all the feedback right now for healthcare.gov, right?”
Ryan Smith: Surveys are fundamentally forms with workflows around them
“That's surveys, it's just a form with a workflow around it”
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 Smith: Corporate research data needs to live longer in one place
“Typically research has had a really short shelf life, and we think for as much as organizations are spending on this, that data needs to live a lot longer, and part of that is to get in one simple spot in the right language for people to use.”
Smith: Qualtrics turned down early revenue to avoid building non-scalable custom features
“One of the early disciplines we had is that if we can't hard code it, and it can't be point and click functionality, we're not going to develop it. And we had to turn down a lot of revenue which is part of the bootstrapping.”
Ryan Smith: Qualtrics grew to one million academic users
“Now where we have a million academic users out there coming out, you know, with a portion coming out every single year and taking Qualtrics with them”