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Sramana Mitra: It was kind of off-the-cuff basically. Cameron Weeks: Yes. As we were running the web company, we were doing that. Sramana Mitra: By the end of 2008, you had sold the web company, right? Cameron Weeks: Yes, it was closer to 2009. Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2009? What did you do next?
Sramana Mitra: I noticed that you said solve the problem that people were not backing up data. You can create back-up opportunities. How do you solve the problem that people were not backing up data? Gleb Budman: The reason I say that what we were trying to do was solve that problem was because back-up
Sramana Mitra: What do you do? Michael Sikorsky: I happened to be in New York. I was connected to lots of stuff around investing and crowdsourcing to venture capital. The iPhone comes out. I had that lightning bolt feeling when the Internet came out. Now, I’m a lot older. I’ve been through multiple companies. I even
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like around 2008, two relatively young entrepreneurs from Indiana sold the company for upwards of a couple of a million dollars and were starting another company. Cameron Weeks: We founded this company that we operate today back in 2007 as a side project. Someone who we had worked with in the
Sramana Mitra: What year did this acquisition happen? Gleb Budman: It happened in March 2000. Sramana Mitra: Good timing. What happens next? Gleb Budman: I worked there until it went out of business. It was going to get acquired by ComCast and I was on the team that was working to package the assets for sale.
Sramana Mitra: I got it. How many people did you have in the company that you were essentially renting out? Michael Sikorsky: It was very fast. It went from 0 to 65 people in nine months. Sramana Mitra: Then you sold the company to whom? Michael Sikorsky: To my business partner. It was almost like
It’s always thrilling for me to encounter entrepreneurs who are succeeding in off-center places, and Fathom Voice is a great example of one from Indiana. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Cameron Weeks: I