Sramana Mitra: Who was your first paying customer? Sazzala Reddy: I’m not sure if it was Siemens. We had about 30 beta customers. Sramana Mitra: What happens next in the journey?
Sramana Mitra: The primary problem that you’re addressing is disaster recovery. Sazzala Reddy: That is the number one use case we found for our platform. Sramana Mitra: How did you settle into this problem domain? What led to this being the chosen problem to go solve with your founding team of five?
We’re seeing some excellent European companies make successful transitions into becoming global software companies. MP Objects CEO Martin Verwijmeren shares an excellent and inspiring story for European startups to emulate. 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
Sramana Mitra: How long did you work at Cohera? Sazzala Reddy: I was there for a year or so. Then I started looking around. I had a friend who happened to be in a networking company called Cosine Communications. It was a slightly bigger company. Then the market crashed.
Sramana Mitra: What about quantifying these use cases and their impact? Have you done anything that you can share with us? Pranam Ben: Let’s take another use case of ER utilization. One of the things that we’ve struggled with is the over-utilization of emergency rooms in the country. We know what an ER visit costs.
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Datrium is executing very well in the cloud-based disaster recovery space. Read on for the company’s journey so far. 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?
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Pranam discusses trends and open opportunities in Healthcare IT. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to The Garage. Pranam Ben: I’m the Founder and CEO of The Garage. The Garage is a very innovative company that started back in 2012 with a single-minded focus to transform healthcare.