Cabrera: Xactly hit targets for all eight quarters as a public company
Chris Cabrera · 1142 Why went public, then sold to Vista for $564m on $100m in ARR · Sep 9, 2018 · at 12:13
Chris Cabrera, CEO of Xactly, reflects on the pressures of quarterly reporting during the two years Xactly traded publicly before selling to Vista Equity Partners.
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“We were public for eight quarters, we made our numbers every quarter but it was tough,”
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