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3 Strategies I Used To Scale SecurityScorecard to $70M ARR, 1,700 Customers, & $200M in Cash

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Created by: Aleksandr Yampolskiy

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Maybe you've seen one of their free reports or…

“maybe you've seen one of their free reports or use them in a plg motion we're going to dive into the full growth story today potential IPO plans net dollar retention Revenue growth and more please help me welcome to the stage Alexander Yoli from security scorecard good to see man it's been way too long it's been way too long you remember that photo shoot from the the last time we were in your office that was fun I remember the photo shoot was a lot of fun and I think we hav played football you k”

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“you maybe have seen their their reports floating around in terms of the plg bottoms up motion uh Revenue growth goes like this and you've gotten to this point using and you call it sort of your experimentation framework so let's spend about a minute and a half on this framework help us understand what we learn from these two tests look the big lesson in the past 10 years is that ideas we thought were good end up being bad and I and many ideas we thought were bad ended up being good right so on t”

That cap table right that pie chart a little…

“that cap table right that pie chart a little bit uh because it's a theme right folks are thinking about how do they capitalize the business you did your first round in 2014 2 million on 6.2 post let me just ask you this looking back at the ceed all the way through the series D any regrets about how you structured any of these deals or the timing so the one thing that I really was careful and the previous speaker spoke about it make sure to nego like the valuation matters a lot less than all the”

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“somebody needs to be in charge and control the board I'm an investor I'm an angel investor into about 23 24 different startups at different stages um and the number one reason why many companies fall apart as founder conflict so make sure found confidence founder conflict conflict yeah so make sure you really love kind of your co-founders so and the same for your exact team you need to be on good terms you need to enjoy presence of you exec so my conservative modeling puts you at”

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Aleksandr Yampolskiy

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CEO & Co-Founder of Security Scorecard

Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy is a cofounder and CEO of SecurityScorecard, the leading security rating company, which is used by over 2,500+ top companies, like Pepsi, McDonalds, Sallie Mae, and many others. Previously he was a CTO of BlogTalkRadio, the largest online radio network averaging over 40 million visitors a month leading to its M&A. Prior to that, Alex was a global CISO at Gilt Groupe companies, during its growth from 200 to over 2,000+ employees and 600M in revenue. Before that he worked at Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, Oracle and other companies as a lead technologist. He did his Ph.D. in Cryptography at Yale University. He is an active speaker and writer in top media publications like CNN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. He is also an angel investor into top disruptive startups. He lives with his family in Brooklyn, and enjoys working out, chess, arts, and travel.

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