Sramana Mitra: How is your system architected to be able to take unstructured data to structured data? Can you talk a little bit about how you do that from a technical point of view? John Harrison: We have a platform that handles the exchange of a lot of documents today. We handle well over a
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Sramana Mitra: What did you have to plug into to make this happen? Based on what you’re describing, integration was involved. Can you talk a bit about what it entailed to get this client to a point where you could start charging them on a gain-share basis? Richard Hoehn: A good amount of client integration
John Harrison: Another application that we’re seeing is more on clinical data analytics. Being able to surface data contained in these repositories of unstructured content is already helping researchers discover new correlations of symptoms and treatments. We’re working with a physician out of University of Colorado hospital and doing some wonderful work on leukemia. The
Sramana Mitra: Let’s get into the details. How did you launch the company? Richard Hoehn: We bootstrapped the company. Freightwise has almost no debt. The way we did it is, we loaded cash in and bootstrapped it. We made one key decision early on that we would build our platform rather than buy it.
Freightwise is No. 2 on the Inc. 5000 for 2018. Amazing bootstrapping story. 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? Richard Hoehn: I grew up in Switzerland. I did an apprenticeship as a machinist – the
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