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Smith: Qualtrics had 160,000 NPS studies running by 2012

Ryan Smith · 931 Qualtrics "Well Past" $250m in ARR, When Will The Go Public? · Feb 10, 2018 · at 5:05

Ryan Smith, co-founder of Qualtrics, describes the enterprise adoption of Qualtrics after expanding out of the academic market.

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“And, you know, we wake up in 2011 after a bunch of hard work with [309] Ryan Smith: You know, 2012 with 160,000 net promoter studies or NPS studies running on Qualtrics and people being able to metric and kind of power their business of experienced data.”

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