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Ryan Smith

9 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 5, 2025 by Ryan Smith · across every show →

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Nov 5, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Dave Goldberg's SurveyMonkey attempted to acquire Qualtrics before its Series A
“You know, the gentleman who was doing it ran a company, I'll just be honest, it was called Survey Monkey at the time.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 26:53 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025
Disclosure
Ryan Smith avoided investing, boards, and real estate for 20 years
“I didn't do anything else when I was doing Qualtrics. I didn't invest. I didn't sit on boards. I didn't buy real estate. I was literally like Qualtrics for 20 years heads down.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 38:55 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025
Disclosure
Ryan Smith avoids work calls during his children's daily transition routines
“Not all three, maybe, but like, if I can schedule a call, I'm not doing it in one of those moments.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 44:24 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025
Assertion Supported
A Qualtrics competitor raised $40M with a cheaper, better product in 2004
“Our competition had just raised a bunch of money. The product was cheaper than ours. They raised forty million dollars, and their product was better than ours.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 21:31 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ryan Smith earned $1,000 monthly teaching English in South Korea at 17
“And then I started getting a schedule and like literally like a month later, I was making like a thousand dollars a month is a 17 year old teaching English.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 9:32 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sequoia demanded Qualtrics formally name a single CEO to secure its investment
“When we took money in 2011, Sequoia, I remember, was like, We're only doing this if there's a CEO. Which one of you is the CEO?”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 18:33 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025 positive
Insight
Ryan Smith requires sales reps to be able to demo products blind
“This is where I've always told our reps, like, do you know your product? I could do the demo on the phone in a car with a link walking them through. Without me looking at the screen. And explain to them every single thing that's going on.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 23:43 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025 negative
Opinion
Ryan Smith calls selling Qualtrics one of his most underwhelming days
“And when Qualtrics sold, it was probably one of the most underwhelming days of my life.”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 36:17 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
Nov 5, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ryan Smith based his Utah Jazz offer on a Forbes mobile valuation
“It was literally a meeting where it was like, well, are you serious? Make us an offer. And we pulled up the Forbes valuation on the phone and I said, well, how's this?”
Ryan Smith Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 41:19 The High School Dropout Who Made Billions & Bought An NBA team
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