Sramana Mitra: What is your solution suite? Do you have a platform, and then you deliver applications on top of that? How do you bring your product to market? Tom Hogan: That’s a great question. We have three paths. I’m going to share the three with you in the reverse order of a conversation I
Ross bootstrapped Mulesoft with a paycheck and also with services. Now, the company has raised over $130 million—the last round at an $800 million valuation. Very interesting story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were your born and raised? Ross Mason: I was born
Sramana Mitra: I think that’s only partially true because the level at which valuations are going out of control right now is way beyond the kind of rational justification that you presented. Robert Reffkin: Uber has raised $40 billion. You can say that’s a huge valuation. If a majority of cars in the country are
Enterprise Mobility is a major trend. Here, we catch up with Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony, a leader in the space. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about yourself as well as Kony. Tom Hogan: I’ll be brief with myself. I’ve been in the industry for 33 years in all. This is the smallest organization I’ve been
Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else from your strategic thought process that you want to share that has helped you achieve what you’ve achieved so far? Terry Ryan: I would just like to touch for a moment on VCs, private equity, and growth capital, I’ve done all the above. When people talk to me about that
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Sramana Mitra: You said you raised a lot of money. What’s the total amount of financing you raised? Robert Reffkin: $73 million. Sramana Mitra: Why have you raised so much money? What have you done with that money? Robert Reffkin: We raised $73 million because we wanted to hire the best people we possibly could.
During today’s roundtable, as part of the launch event for my book, Carnival In The Cloud, we had Dave Hornik as our guest. Dave, as some of you may know, shocked the industry about 10 years back by being the first VC to start blogging. His peers were aghast! Well, clearly, he saw something before