Taylor Safford

My love for startups began shortly after joining Qualtrics - a few months post-Scott's basement. Many lessons were learned from scaling Qualtrics from 18 employees and less than 100 customers to over 4,000 employees and over 12,000+ customers, from a basement company to an $8.5B SAP acquisition, and one of the fastest companies to $1B in revenue in the history of SaaS.

When I started, ARR was ~$1M. When I left, it was ~$740M, and the teams I was fortunate to start/be a part of contributed to ~$150M+ of that overall number.

I believe three key elements of a successful team fuel these results: people, processes, and resources.