Scaling to $10M ARR with a Virtual Company: Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We’re going to need to double-click on that. What do you actually provide? My understanding is that Magento is a hosted e-commerce platform. Fred Plais: Exactly. When you take a look at what a development team on the web is, you’re going to have 3 to 4 people that are managing the servers.

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Turning Philanthropy into a Double Bottomline Business: Ram Palaniappan, CEO of Earnin (Part 4)

Ram Palaniappan: Once we got that algorithm, we were able to expand it to salaried workers as well. Another thing that was interesting was, when I started, I was pushing money out over ACH. It shows up in the employee’s bank account the next day. Over time, we integrated with every ATM and debit network

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Sramana Mitra: What do you make of unicorn mania? Silicon Valley is going crazy. India tends to be more conservative, but India went crazy too. Rajul Garg: We all plug into the same mothership. There’s not much that you can do to deviate from that. Smaller funds define a unicorn, in our own heads, as

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Scaling to $10M ARR with a Virtual Company: Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Fred has built a wonderful company with a virtual architecture. Read on to see how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Fred Plais: I was

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Turning Philanthropy into a Double Bottomline Business: Ram Palaniappan, CEO of Earnin (Part 3)

Ram Palaniappan: Then I asked them to fill out a web form if they needed money. Once I had the web form up, people who I didn’t know tried to use it. I got access to their employer’s time attendance system, so I was able to do it for people who I didn’t know. That’s

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