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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by bigbadgoose on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:07AM (#18433384)
Lots of people think this way. These are not tech companies; they are enterprise sales organizations.
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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by abakker on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:16AM (#18433443)
I think that is a pretty grim outlook on Qualtrics. They are definitively a tech company, as they provide a technology which is not only useful, but differentiated. If you believe that survey==web form, then yeah, it doesn't seem like a lot, but, if you think survey==research tool, with randomization, experiments, SPSS file export, recoding, loops, panel provider integration etc. and you don't want to write code because your job is to produce data not databases, then qualtrics seems like a very nice piece of software.
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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by godzillabrennus on Monday November 12, 2018 @12:52PM (#18434195)
Sales cures all. No business has ever succeeded without sales. - Mark Cuban
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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by thwy12321 on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:34PM (#18434537)
That guy hit the lottery at the height of the tech boom and has done nothing since...
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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by cenal on Monday November 12, 2018 @02:27PM (#18434952)
He manufactured much of his success: http://investmentxyz.blogspot.com/2006/05/cubans-collar-anat...
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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by jjeaff on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:33AM (#18440004)
What do you mean by manufactured? The options he bought to protect his locked up Yahoo stock was probably one of the smarter decisions he has made
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Re:How one family built Qualtrics to an $8B exit by jjeaff on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @05:32AM (#18440000)
He did a little more than that. He had a pretty successful exit before broadcast.com.
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