Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You’re more of a freelance engineering talent exchange? Taso Du Val: That’s accurate. We think of ourselves as Uber for engineers. It’s funny. A lot of companies have pitched this. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go from there. At 25, this is what you decided you wanted to do. How did you get the business

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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to start asking you very deep questions because I did a startup in the sales lead generation area back in 1997. It used NLP and the whole AI stream. It was a bit early. It was well before the Internet had completely established itself. I know a lot about this area

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Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about your thinking around that. It sounds like there’s a philosophy around being self-financed. You must be getting lots of calls from private equity all the time. Faisal Husain: Yes, we’ve been getting calls for several years. I have met all of them and am on fairly good terms with them. In

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