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Trilogy Software

Austin company with Trilogy University

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Story

Trilogy University: fly recruits to Vegas, hand them $1,000 to bet it all

Sam tells the story of Joe Liemandt, who dropped out of Stanford to found Trilogy Software in Austin. Its famous Trilogy University trained hundreds of young hires a year, and the wild founder would fly recruits to Vegas and hand them $1,000 to bet it all to get them comfortable with risk.

There's stories of him taking— they would fly all the recruits to Vegas and he would say— they were young kids, they didn't have a lot of money, but he would say, "Here's $1,000 grand, bet it all." And he would try to do that to get them used to risk.
EP 43 · 17:31 · SAM
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Billy

The quiet Texas billionaire rolling up enterprise software

Sam marvels at Joe Liemandt, a once-famous-then-vanished Trilogy founder now quietly acquiring possibly hundreds of enterprise software companies worth $20-50M each, outsourcing dev to India and raising prices, with revenue likely in the billions while saying almost nothing publicly.

And what he does is he outsources most of the gigs to India for Indian developers, and he just increases the prices of the product and, uh, does well. And no one talks about this guy, right? But his enterprise has to be in the billions of dollars in revenue.
EP 43 · 19:09 · SAM
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