Therese Tucker Quotes
21 quotes from Therese Tucker — Founder and former CEO of BlackLine, a cloud-based accounting software company that she took public in 2016..
“It's possible to build something out of nothing that has incredible value.”
“We've done something so unique. We've convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud.”
“When you find the right partner, the right investor, what they can do in terms of helping you grow and scale a company is just invaluable.”
“I've spent my whole career in B2B software. It's an area that doesn't get enough focus.”
“I've also always had trouble conforming, fitting into a certain mold.”
“Bootstrapped, because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then.”
“Turned out I liked it. Turned out it became who I am.”
“I got bored and started BlackLine. Not the best reason for starting a company.”
“Why have a modest ambition? Because then you accomplish it, and it's boring.”
“I told my kids, had I been able to access their college savings funds, I probably would have taken that too.”
“Bootstrapped it and then in October of 2016, we actually did an IPO, which was interesting and fun and cool, but it's a lot of work, too.”
“I've always had trouble conforming, fitting into a certain mold.”
“The relentless entrepreneur funded her idea completely on her own dime until 2013.”
“I want to put a caveat on that.”
“I cashed out my nest egg from my options, I maxed out my credit cards, I took out a second mortgage on my house. If I could have figured out how to get into my kids' college funds, I would have taken that too.”
“We need more women CEOs of tech companies. It's disturbing we've made such little progress.”
“The beautiful thing about programming is that you can direct a computer to do something for you and you can then run that on a million computers. The power is amazing for what you can do for business with that. I fell in love with it, and it's been my entire career.”
“The best advice is "don't do it." Because if you listen to that advice, you'll never make it. It's the people that are crazy and are determined to work themselves to death and to fail and fail and fail until they don't fail.”
“When you are spending your own money, you learn to do it really well. You learn that if you sign up for a trade show at the last minute, you can get a really good deal. You learn how to take every single dollar and put that dollar towards generating more revenue.”
“I have to acknowledge that, after 19 years, a lot of my identity is wrapped up in this company, and in the title. I'm handing my baby off to somebody who loves that baby. But yeah, I'll probably freak out at some point.”
“I didn't get a salary for my first five or six years at BlackLine. And when I finally did, it was $30,000 a year and it was about one-tenth of what I'd made at SunGard. And I was thrilled.”
