How To Get a 20 Million Dollar Pre-Money Valuation for Series A: Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot (Part 3)

SM: Essentially, you are doing drag-and-drop query-building using graphics. Internally, that query is being translated into some sort of SQL which is processed and transferred back into graphics for the user. Is that a correct assessment? CC: Yes that’s right. The language from which we are retrieving data could be anything. You can expose any

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How To Get a 20 Million Dollar Pre-Money Valuation for Series A: Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot (Part 2)

SM: How long did it take you to build and flip BeeLine, and what did you do after that? CC: It took about 18 months. Even to this day I’ll look over at a stoplight and see one of our maps, which is very satisfying. A month after we sold BeeLine we had a party

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How To Get a 20 Million Dollar Pre-Money Valuation for Series A: Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot (Part 1)

Christian Chabot is CEO and co-founder of Tableau Software. Prior to Tableau he was an associate partner at Softbank Venture Capital, where he specialized in enterprise applications. Before Softbank, Christian was CEO and co-founder of BeeLine Software, which was acquired by Vicinity Corporation. Christian started his career as a data analyst at Cornerstone Research, an

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Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 6)

SM: I am observing that you have a segment out there, which is teachers who are teaching middle school and high school math and science without significant math and science backgrounds. If you take that segment of teachers and teach them how to teach with technology, then you have a very interesting segment. That is

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Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 5)

SM: As long as a university is regionally accredited, it qualifies for financial aid? JK: Yes. There are other specific requirements along as well, but that is the most important issue.

Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 4)

SM: You said that your students are working adults. Do they take your programs out of convenience? JK: While there is a level of flexibility and convenience in distance learning, it is also hard. It is challenging to sit down for school after a full day of work. Students spend dinner with their families, put

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Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 3)

SM: Your focus is to train nurse educators but not nurse practitioners, is that correct? JK: Yes. We do not have a nursing licensing program. There are a lot of programs like that out there. Those programs have a challenge finding enough educators.

Educating Working Adults: Walden University President Jonathan Kaplan (Part 2)

SM: What is the focus of Walden University today? JK: Today, our focus remains entirely on the mission of the university. That mission remains positive social change. Entrepreneurs are incredibly mission-focused.