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A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: In what capacity did you start that company? Were you just a regular entrepreneur or were you doing this in an intrapreneurship mode? Andrew Rose: It’s a bit of both. The UK office provided the capital. I was employee one and I hired up to hundreds from that point. It is intrapreneurship, but
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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Can you walk me through a bit of a use case? For example, I’m just going to use our own video content as proxy. We have a YouTube channel, that is the 1M1M roundtable channel that’s full of entrepreneurship-related content. If I were to use your technology to distribute this content, what are
A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: We run a lot of intra-preneurship programs. Oracle’s intrapreneurship program is on 1Mby1M. We are very familiar with all that. Andrew Rose: You know it even better than most. It creates its own opportunities and its own challenges. You’re not necessarily going out and raising money, but you still have all the other
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Interesting and quite different from a lot of the perspective that we see because there is a huge question mark around the media industry’s evolution. I’m quite involved in a bunch of things. We have at least one partnership with a large media company. All that aside, I’d like to understand how many
A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of job did you get in Richmond? Andrew Rose: That was my big break from chemical engineering. I had ended up getting a Master’s in Project Management from George Washington while I was with Shell. I started my MBA down there as well. I knew where I wanted to go. The
A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 1)
Andrew has raised $185 million for his insurance comparison shopping business. Read on to see how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Andrew Rose: I’m from the mountains of West Virginia. I grew up in a
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Susan Stone of Sierra Wasatch Capital (Part 1)
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Susan Stone was recorded in January 2019. Susan Stone, Founder and Managing Partner at Sierra Wasatch Capital, discusses their investment thesis around media technology. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get acquainted. Tell us about
Catching Up On Readings: Architects of Intelligence
This Hitting the Books feature from Engadget brings to you some excerpts from Martin Ford’s book Architects of Intelligence in which he interviews 23 tech luminaries and thought leaders in AI development to discuss the benefits and pitfalls the technology poses for the industry, the economy, and society as a whole. For this week’s posts, click on
