Ryan Smith
9 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Feb 17, 2019 by Ryan Smith · said 4 times in 4 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2021 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
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Feb 17, 2019 neutral
Ryan Smith: Qualtrics was fully committed to an IPO, not dual-tracking
“I was not running a dual track. I invited 300 of my closest friends to take mortgages on their house to go buy into the friends and family, and then I was like, oh, J slash K, it was like a pump fake, and everyone went flying by, and then we laid it.”
Feb 17, 2019 positive
Smith: Targeting academia seeded Qualtrics across the enterprise workforce
“It was the most brilliant thing that we did, and everywhere I go, and we were on the road show and everything, it was, wow, that was the most brilliant model I've ever seen because, you know, millions of academics used Qualtrics and then took it with them into…”
Feb 17, 2019 positive
Smith: Acquirers will not move without a compelling event like an IPO
“If you're not building a company that can stand up and go public, Then you're probably going to be, no one's going to want it anyways. And you, there's going to be an outlier or two where you're going to point to and say that, but no one ever really, I mean, S…”
Feb 17, 2019
Feb 17, 2019 positive
Feb 17, 2019 bullish
Feb 17, 2019 negative
Nov 11, 2019 positive
Cummings: Qualtrics scaled to $500M ARR without primary balance sheet capital
“Ryan Smith from Qualtrics, and he told the amazing story of going from zero to five hundred million of revenue
And not requiring any primary capital. Five hundred million in recurring revenue, and they never raised any money that went to the balance sheet.”
Nov 17, 2021 positive
Lemkin: SaaS founders led Front's $600M valuation round
“The last round in front, which I think was at six or seven hundred million, was all founders. Okay, it was Ryan Smith from Qualtrics, I forget who else, the other billion, our friends, the billionaires of SaaS, but they all, I think, led that round instead of …”