Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: 156 customer calls that you made gave you real conversations about real customer problems. Even though you didn’t sell what you went out to sell, this was a great opportunity to immerse yourself in customers and learn what they were really looking for. Gaurav Dhillon: This is AB testing to the power of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Damon Ragusa, CEO of ThinkVine (Part 3)

Damon Ragusa: What we do is consolidate data from a lot of different sources. There are three V’s of Big Data—Volume, Velocity, and Variety. Variety is my favorite V. I think you get more value by integrating a larger variety of data to explain the thing you’re trying to understand than just more of the

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Building a Fashion Accessories Marketplace from London: Kiyan Foroughi, CEO of Boticca (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to 2010 when you were launching Boticca. Tell me more about how you got this off the ground. What did you launch with? What was the financing around it? Kiyan Foroughi: I actually launched an alpha version of the website on my own. I’m not a technical guy so I

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 3)

Gaurav Dhillon: Let me take you through that journey. I still remember how excited we were. Once we got the grant, we built the research into the object databases. The truth is they never got anywhere. Then we thought, “Why don’t we build technology to help people downsize?” This is 1995 and you’re running a COBOL program on a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Damon Ragusa, CEO of ThinkVine (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of your business composition, are you a product business or a services business? Damon Ragusa: That’s a great question and we’re both. When we started the company, we talked about being a Software-as-a-Service platform. We still do have a SaaS platform that delivers insights and allows our customers to essentially develop

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Building a Fashion Accessories Marketplace from London: Kiyan Foroughi, CEO of Boticca (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do to address that issue? Kiyan Foroughi: Before I jump into that, there’s one thing I want to add. I told you about my professional background. In terms of my family heritage, I come from a background of jewelry. I’m the fourth generation in the luxury industry on my mother’s side.

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Prior to Informatica, your work experience was with Unisys? Gaurav Dhillon: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: Did you come up with the concept for Informatica while you were at Unisys? Gaurav Dhillon: We wanted to break up into our own along this whole point server downsizing process. Believe it or not, the co-founders applied

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