One Team, One Score, One North Star - Jonathan Corr, Ellie Mae CEO [S2.E2]

Jonathan Corr is my guest on this episode of Scaling Up.
 Jonathan is the current CEO of Ellie Mae.


This episode is a wonderful deep dive into the world of a highly
experienced CEO who has had the benefit of seeing the full
spectrum of the growth curve. Ellie listed on the New York Stock
Exchange in 2011, relatively early in its journey. Jonathan
oversaw and came through all the common scaling challenges –
re-platforming of their technology stack, changes in their
business model, and by far the biggest challenge, scaling the
people and culture of the business. All the while being a listed
public company and facing the volatility that that brings.


Jonathan gives great insight into all these challenges and
 was incredibly transparent in relation to the take over of
Ellie by Thoma Bravo, a leading Private Equity technology
company, for US$3.7b. 


Ellie Mae sells software to the mortgage industry, streamlining
and automating the process of originating and funding new
mortgage loans as well as facilitating regulatory compliance. As
you can imagine, mortgage brokers and banks love this software,
and this is reflected in Ellie’s 35% market share


This is an episode for the business purists – a phenomenal growth
story, unsurprisingly wrapped up in the importance of great
people, all working under a common mission.