From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7shifts (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Were your other co-founders technical? Jordan Boesch: My wife is not technical. She was doing client success, sales, and business development. I was doing design and web development. Our third co-founder was doing the mobile apps. Sramana Mitra: How did you find him?

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the numbers on Series B and Series C? Raghu Ravinutala: In series B, we raised about $20 million. In Series C, we raised about $79 million. Sramana Mitra: That’s a lot of money that you’ve raised. You’d have to build a huge company to return that investment. One of the things

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