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How ThreeKit Plans to Grow into their $300m+ Valuation, Break $10m Revenue This Year
- ▶ 1:14 Nathan Latka He's also head of global sales leadership positions at steel work and big machines, cloud configure price to grow CDQ platforms that were acquired by Salesforce,
- ▶ 2:03 Matt Gorniak But there's like another thread in parallel as we're like to build companies, which is company, big machines got sold to Oracle and steel brick to Salesforce. 3 times in the scene
This Founder Built 3 SaaS Companies, hit $40m ARR 3 times. Here's how
- ▶ 6:34 Godard Abel Um, but they're just slow, because I remember my first company, Big Machines, it took me nine years to get into Gartner Report, and 12 years to become the leader.
- ▶ 7:37 Godard Abel And my first company, Big Machines, as I mentioned, I started this in the dot-com era. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:02 Godard Abel And the second company, yeah, we learned a lot, uh, because after we sold big machines to Oracle, actually, after we'd started GTO, we decided to do another one, because right after Oracle bought big machines, we're like, wow, there's… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:55 Godard Abel I'm very thankful to Mark Benioff, because really, thanks to him, big machines and his ecosystem.
- ▶ 21:41 Godard Abel And I think the hard lesson though I learned at Big Machines was, initially my vision was way too broad.
- ▶ 24:47 Godard Abel And this was our team at Steelbrick, and I think what was cool about Steelbrick, I think of the 200 people we had when Salesforce acquired us, over a hundred were with us at Big Machines, and they were totally dialed in.
- ▶ 30:17 Godard Abel There I am in 2009 with my baby daughter Maddie, ah, my wife Stacy, and that's our big machines team early days.
Today G2 Is Worth $1b. What happened 24 months ago?
- ▶ 1:39 Nathan Latka So first company you were building, uh, was it, which one was it steel or big machines? 4 times in the scene
G2 Hits $50m in ARR (+$20m), and $450m Valuation
- ▶ 2:20 Nathan Latka So first company you were building, uh, was it, which one was it steel or big machines? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:15 Nathan Latka Okay, so you were still basically building big machines?