Alan Treffler

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Oct 25, 2018 neutral

Assertion Partly supported

Pegasystems took 24 years to reach $100M in revenue before accelerating

“Well, you know, the way I describe the company is we became an overnight success after 24 years. So it took 24 years. To hit a hundred million in revenue, and then obviously the business has really been clipping along since then.”

Alan Treffler Oct 25, 2018 ▶ 4:43 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Oct 25, 2018 negative

Insight

Treffler warns acquiring companies solely for customer bases creates product confusion

“I'm not as much of a fan of buying customer bases because usually when you buy a customer base, you just give yourself a lot of confusion in terms of you know, which software you're going to offer there.”

Alan Treffler Oct 25, 2018 ▶ 18:56 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Oct 25, 2018 neutral

Insight

Treffler says ramping enterprise sales reps for mission-critical software takes 14 months

“In our business, given, given we're selling mission critical capabilities in a lot of cases it can take double that.”

Alan Treffler Oct 25, 2018 ▶ 18:18 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Oct 25, 2018 neutral

Disclosure

Treffler funded Pegasystems with family loans and a $500K life insurance policy

“I had to borrow money from family. And one of the first things I did was take out a 500,000 dollar term life and policy on myself.”

Alan Treffler Oct 25, 2018 ▶ 2:56 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Oct 25, 2018 positive

Assertion Supported

Treffler says an outside president stalled Pegasystems under $100M in revenue

“I for five years, brought in a president. And we actually learned a lot. I was able to really step back, but they weren't able to get it up over a hundred million. We were stuck there for several years. When I came back, I learned enough and we made enough cha…”

Alan Treffler Oct 25, 2018 ▶ 5:51 1188 Pega About To Hit $1B in ARR as 30+ Year "Overnight Success"

Alan Treffler

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