why aren't all 13 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
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.”
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.”
Insight
Thomas: Rebuilding Acquired Capabilities Natively Is Faster Than Merging Codebases
“So we can rebuild faster than attaching or merging it.”
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.”
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.”
Assertion Contradicted
Thomas: CMOs now spend more on enterprise technology than CIOs
“The CMO is now spending more than CIO on, on, on technology.”
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.”
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.”
Assertion Supported
Thomas: Sprinklr has raised $240M in venture capital to date
“Two hundred and forty million dollars. It's like rounding up.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”