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Sramana Mitra: There is one question that I want to ask you today. In the deal flow that you are seeing and your analysis of the market, what are some open problems that you have identified where you are looking for deep tech teams to solve those problems? Are there any that you are looking to
Sramana Mitra: It’s not a bad thing to have a tough time raising Series A. Most likely, you’re doing something new. The market is not crawling with 27 other competitors. The problem with that 27 competitors trying to raise money for the same idea is that it’s very noisy. A noisy market is very difficult
Pandio Founders, CEO Gideon Rubin and CTO Josh Odmark, explore AI Connectivity in this discussion.
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You have heard me discuss bootstrapping using services quite a lot. With Kinetic Data CEO John Sundberg’s story, we also take on another important key strategy for customer acquisition: content marketing. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some background. Where are you from? Where were you born
Sramana Mitra: In the scenarios where are you doing deep tech and you need to bring in a CEO to manage a tech-savvy team going after an interesting market opportunity, what nuggets or lessons from the trenches can you offer as guidance to our audience? Karthee Madasamy: It’s a hard question. I sympathize with you.
Sramana Mitra: One question that comes to my mind is how many of those existing tools were you able to bring into your product design in version one? Dharmesh Shah: We did it from scratch. Our thinking was that we could have tried taking WordPress and Google Analytics and integrate them into this larger platform,
Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight, first spoke with me when Gainsight was very young. Much has happened since. This conversation catches us up on the interim years since 2013. Gainsight recently raised money from Vista Equity at $1.1 Billion valuation.