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Ragy Thomas

1 appearance on the record.

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13statements → 8claims → 3claims resolved → 33%fully supported → 4.08/5average certainty → 1.77/5average debate potential → ≈4.5/5argument clarity, estimated → 12said about them ↓

1 supported 0 partly supported 2 contradicted 5 not checkable as stated how the 8 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

8 assertions · 1 opinion · 3 insights · 1 disclosure · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 8 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 3 are resolved, and 5 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ragy argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Thomas: Sprinklr has raised $240M in venture capital to date
“Two hundred and forty million dollars. It's like rounding up.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 8:23 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Thomas: CMOs now spend more on enterprise technology than CIOs
“The CMO is now spending more than CIO on, on, on technology.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 20:27 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ragy Thomas on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ragy Thomas said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Thomas: Sprinklr discards acquired code and writes down revenue post-acquisition
“The second interesting thing there is every one of these acquisitions that we've brought on, we have practically thrown away the code. In most cases, we've written down the revenue.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 9:43 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Insight
Thomas: Educating an unready market just paves the road for competitors
“You don't want to spend your time educating the market that's not ready for you. Cause that's just paving the road for the next company to take advantage of that education.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 19:35 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Insight
Thomas: Rebuilding Acquired Capabilities Natively Is Faster Than Merging Codebases
“So we can rebuild faster than attaching or merging it.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 11:06 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Insight
Thomas: Marketing budgets are flawed because 90% of buyers rely on peers
“Marketing is foundationally now flawed. Because 80% of your budget, if you're spending into what to say to people, and 90% of people are making the decision on what others are saying to them, you're off.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 17:32 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thomas: Sprinklr contracts average $150K to $200K, exceeding $10M annually
“You know, it varies by quarter, but generally around a 150 to 200,000. And the contract ranges that we try not to do engagements below a hundred grand, and on the high end, it goes annualized over ten million dollars a year.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 2:46 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Contradicted
Thomas: CMOs now spend more on enterprise technology than CIOs
“The CMO is now spending more than CIO on, on, on technology.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 20:27 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thomas: Sprinklr refers sub-enterprise discovery leads to competitor Hootsuite
“In fact, I have personally referred many customers to Hootsuite. We go, we do a discovery, and I've personally said, we're not ready for each other, and you should use something that's more suited to your current needs.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 25:45 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thomas: Sprinklr serves 1,200 large brands across 24 social channels
“We work with 1200 large brands like McDonald's and Nike and Dell we give you one unified platform to do your marketing, to do your advertising, to do your research, to do your commerce engagement, and do your customer care across 24 social channels.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 1:40 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Supported
Thomas: Sprinklr has raised $240M in venture capital to date
“Two hundred and forty million dollars. It's like rounding up.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 8:23 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thomas: Sprinklr maintains quarterly logo retention between 90% and 100%
“Between 90 and a hundred percent is, is where we keep it.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 18:27 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Thomas: Sprinklr customer contract expansion ranges from 20% to 40% annually
“It varies between 20 to 40%. Again, those are metrics that we track quarterly.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 24:46 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Assertion Contradicted
Thomas: No public 1999 email marketing company survived the dot-com bust
“If you think about email marketing as an industry in 19, 99, there were publicly traded email marketing companies. None of them made it past the dot-com bust.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 12:25 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?
Opinion
Thomas admires Vista Equity's business strategy and would welcome a meeting
“I'm actually, I'm in love with the business strategy. He's done a lot of clever things that are not obvious, so I would use that as an excuse to go meet those people.”
Ragy Thomas Dec 3, 2017 ▶ 32:44 862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr?

The other half of the tape: Ragy Thomas's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 11 times in 9 episodes on Top Founders. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Nathan Latka 11

Statements about Ragy Thomas, by other people (1)

Assertion Supported
Latka: Sprinklr generates well over $100 million in annual revenue
“We just had Raji on actually very recently shared with some revenue numbers, you know, doing a well over a hundred million bucks a year now.”
Nathan Latka May 17, 2018 ▶ 1:13 1027 Finally a $10m+ PR Company Focused on Analytics!

Every mention by year

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2020 1 mention in 1 episode
2019 7 mentions in 7 episodes 1 per episode
2018 3 mentions in 1 episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
862 With $150m+ Revenue, Plus New Product, Can Anyone Catch Sprinklr? Dec 3, 2017 19m
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