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In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:


During this week’s roundtable, I spoke about the changing landscape in the startup ecosystem. Among other things, it is becoming increasingly evident that the 3-month accelerator is broken except in very specific cases.
You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Sramana Mitra: Healthcare is big, but it’s cumbersome. It’s one of the biggest exit barrier systems, right? You’ve all these legacy systems that refuse to exit, that refuse to budge, and entrepreneurs have a really hard time getting their toehold – not even foothold – toehold into those homes.
Where did you find the entry point of something that you could sell?
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Sramana Mitra: How long did you stay there?
Ganesh Padmanabhan: About two and a half years. During that time, we went from about $3 million to about $30 million ARR. It was very fast growth. It was early days of AI and we learned a lot.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Okay. So, now I have a picture of your timeline to double click down on. So, tell me about the startup that you did – where you got acqui-hired. How long was that journey?
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