Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Do you operate as a product or a services company? Prashant Kumar: We are primarily an ISV but we have a consulting part as well. We deliver use cases for the customers.  Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the Telefonica use case. It sounds like that is what you broke into the market with.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When the teacher is assigning this reading through your product, is the student doing that reading at home? Stuart Udell: Before COVID, about 46% of our reading was done after school hours. Since COVID, that number jumped to the high 80s and even touched 90%. The nice thing is, there are lots of

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 1)

This is a deeply technical discussion about a specific layer of the technology stack where Data Engineering and other data related disciplines are handled. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Cardinality. 

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to go in a bunch of different directions in the next part of the interview. One, let’s start with the product and the model of how students are using the product. What is the infrastructure? How are teachers engaging? How are parents engaging to come up with a good outcome? Stuart

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Meltwater to $200 Million

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Founder Jorn Lyseggen started Meltwater in Norway and, when we spoke in 2015, had scaled the company organically to $200 million. Fascinating journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Homeroots CEO Gil Bar-Lev (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You operated in a zero-logistics mode with domestic manufacturers. Since 2018, how long did you operate in that mode before introducing the logistics operation? Gil Bar-Lev: We started the logistics operation in the last quarter of 2020. We started with just one warehouse in California. Then we expanded and now have two. We’re

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 1)

McGraw Hill has just acquired Achieve3000. Stuart is an EdTech veteran who discusses the pre-K-12 literacy gap, personalized learning, as well as open opportunities in B-to-C education models driven by Covid. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about your own background and introduce us to the company. Let’s get acquainted.

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