My first month as editor, I had lunch with Alteryx Inc. CEO Dean Stoecker. Stoecker’s data-analytics, SaaS developer had just gone public, raising $114 million in the biggest tech IPO in years in these parts. Our lunch was within a few weeks of one of his first conference calls with analysts as a public company. I was rusty at reading CEO poker faces after years on a university campus, but I noted in a July 29, 2017 Insider item that Stoecker was “acting like a boss who’d hired good people and could enjoy his meal.”
This week, 15 months after that relaxed meal, Irvine-based Alteryx reported another 60% sales increase as it doubled international sales and its liquidity position to $414 million in cash and equivalents. It’s now about breaking even on a GAAP basis. Alteryx stock (NYSE: AYX) was trading at $58.35 midday Friday, up 400% over last spring’s IPO to a $3.6 billion market value. Enjoy dinner, Dean …
The World Affairs Council of Orange County will host “Around the World in 60 Minutes with Congressman Ed Royce” to honor the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and outgoing, 13-term Congressman … dinner event at The Resort at Pelican Hill on Dec. 3, www.worldaffairscouncil.org … Republican Young Kim, longtime aide to Royce, will likely win the 39th District seat, up 2.5% over lottery winner Gil Cisneros as of Friday …
World-renowned muralist and Laguna Beach resident Wyland commemorated the 25th anniversary of his foundation with a live painting and a gala on Nov. 10 at Hyatt Regency in Newport Beach … “Massive, iconic marine-life murals of whales at scale” were revolutionary in the ’70s, said Wyland Foundation Executive Director Steve Creech. “No one doing anything like that at the time—renaissance for environmental movement.” Creech cites cleaning-products manufacturer ECOS in Cypress, Samueli Foundation and Disneyland Resort as local supporters of Wyland’s conservation efforts … Chapman University’s annual song-and-dance gala, Chapman Celebrates, raised $1.75 million for student scholarships … the donations are for people like Jasmine Maree Johnson, who went from years of homelessness to graduating as a triple major, and is now an author …
“Without the scholarships, I wouldn’t be where I am today, walking in my purpose and living my best life,” Johnson said. I’ve had 20 years of students, none more memorable …
Grateful Dead co-founder Bob Weir received Chapman’s Lifetime Achievement in the Arts award and performed an acoustic “Easy to Slip” as powerful as it sounded on vinyl in ’78’s “Heaven Help the Fool.”
