Sramana Mitra: I can think of two entrepreneurs that I’ve talked to within our program who would appreciate talking to BigCommerce about what they’re doing. But taking advantage of your ecosystem, how do we connect these dots and how do we explore such opportunities? Jimmy Duvall: On a personal level, I’ve worked with TechStars. I
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Sramana Mitra: You have very efficient and seamless ways to retrofit software that is not SaaS-enabled and turn them into SaaS. It think it’s extremely valuable. It’s interesting that you’re doing that. Feyzi Fatehi: To me, the biggest revolution that could happen in the software industry for the next 10 years is offering the open
Sramana Mitra: What about logistics? That must be another area where Amazon is a player that you have to interface with. Jimmy Duvall: Absolutely. They help our retailers handle logistics and fulfillment. It is part of what is this integration that we have with Amazon around the marketplace. It’s a value-add for our customers in
Jim has bootstrapped a $10M company by providing a software solution to the charity auction management problem. Interesting journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jim Alvarez: I was born and raised in the south side
Sramana Mitra: What are the open problems where you would encourage new entrepreneurs to start companies? Feyzi Fatehi: One question I ask people is, in your opinion, how many open source applications are legitimate and are legitimately accepted by the Fortune 1,000? How many open source solutions are now used in the Fortune 1,000 that
Sramana Mitra: How many developers are developing on your ecosystem? Jimmy Duvall: We have over 300 partners. I can’t necessarily extrapolate that into numbers of developers, but it’s got to be in thousands. We are onboarding everything from design agencies to consultancies like Accenture. Just a quick anecdote, we were in London last week. We
During this week’s roundtable, we had Doug Atkin, Managing Partner at Communitas Capital Partners, as our guest. Doug has extensive experience in FinTech and this conversation explored the nuances of that sector. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: