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filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other

insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.

I had no money when I started the company.

It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.

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I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.

Hello, everyone, my guest today is Matt Price.

He's the senior vice president of Zendesk's product portfolio. Now, prior to this

role, he served as SVP of marketing and as vice president and general manager Europe, Middle East,

and Africa. Before joining Zendesk, he served as the chief marketing officer at another technology

company. Matt, are you ready to take us to the top? I'm really excited to be here, Nathan.

Yeah, let's go.

Thanks for joining.

So usually I have founders on, but you've been around Zendesk so long.

You've seen a lot of those stories.

When did Zendesk launch and what year did you join?

Zendes launched almost exactly 10 years ago, and I joined six years ago.

And in fact, I kind of like to

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