Q&A with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: ‘We’ve been working our whole lives to become an overnight success’

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Seven years ago in small office space in the Fremont neighborhood, Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot boldly told me that his 25-person enterprise software company would be the next billion dollar company from Seattle. ”We believe it, like we believe anything,” Chabot said at the time. Today, that belief finally became a reality as Tableau skyrocketed in… Read More…

Tableau boosts IPO price range to $28 to $30, signaling strong demand for shares

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Tableau is inching closer to becoming a publicly-traded company, with the Seattle maker of data visualization software expected to begin trading on Friday. But investors who want a piece of the 10-year-old company may have to pay a pretty penny. In an updated SEC filing today, the company boosted its proposed offering price to as… Read More…

GeekWire Awards: Vote for Startup CEO of the Year

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We’re back for another round of voting in the GeekWire Awards, and today’s category is a big one: Startup CEO of the Year, presented by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. We kicked off voting for the GeekWire Awards last week, and we’ll continue tabulating the votes in each of the 14 categories in the coming days…. Read More…

Score one for Seattle startup partnerships: Tatango, Julep team up for text-message campaign

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As the Seattle startup scene continues to grow, so do opportunities to form partnerships with neighboring companies. And that’s exactly what happened with two fast-growing startups here in the Emerald City: group-SMS service Tatango and cosmetics company Julep. Both companies knew each other because of shared mutual investors. When Julep launched their e-commerce site, Tatango… Read More…

Patience, perseverance and passion: Video highlights from our talk with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot

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We had a great conversation with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot Wednesday evening at our GeekWire Meetup. Chabot talked about several interesting topics, from why entrepreneurs should avoid venture capital to the power of perseverence over pivoting to Seattle as a startup city. You can check out the video highlights above, followed by some additional thoughts from our attendees…. Read More…

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot: The power of perseverance over pivoting

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One of the interesting things about Tableau Software is that the company’s mission — to help people see and understand data — really hasn’t changed much since it was founded 10 years ago in the aftermath of the dot-com bust. I got the chance to ask CEO Christian Chabot about the company’s ability to stay… Read More…

Tableau CEO Chabot: Seattle is the promised land of startup America

Tableau CEO Christian Chabot calls Seattle the "promise land" of startup America.

We had a stimulating conversation with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot yesterday at our GeekWire Meetup. Chabot touched on a number of really interesting topics and had good perspective on Seattle as a startup city. Chabot co-founded Tableau back in 2003 down at Stanford University but decided to bring the visual analytics software business up north to the… Read More…

GeekWire Meetup is Feb. 13: A fireside chat with Tableau CEO Christian Chabot

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Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot bluntly told me in an interview seven years ago that his young 25-person software startup would be “the next billion-dollar company from Seattle.” Bold words. But fast forward to today, and Chabot is well on his way to fulfilling that promise. Tableau now employs more than 700 people worldwide who… Read More…

Ready to IPO? Tableau Software’s bookings top $58 million for first half of 2012

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Tableau Software is one of Seattle’s rising tech stars, and we’ve speculated in the past that the fast-growing maker of visual analytics software could be a candidate to go public at some time in the near future. But just how is Tableau doing? At an open house Thursday night at Tableau’s headquarters in Fremont, we got… Read More…

Here are 5 tech companies from Seattle that could take the IPO plunge in 2012

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The world may be waiting on a Facebook IPO. And while there’s some chatter about whether the $5 billion public offering from the social networking giant will open the floodgates for tech offerings, The Wall Street Journal today notes that it might be a new breed that actually woos Wall Street: enterprise IT companies. That’s… Read More…