From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7shifts (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Beyond your dad, how did other customers find you?

Jordan Boesch: We had it online and people were finding us because they were just looking for scheduling software. They would google us and they’d sign up. I didn’t think anything about how to expand and get more. It was really just a fun project for me where folks could sign up and I could talk to them and learn about their needs. That’s how people found us.

Sramana Mitra: How much were they paying?

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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)

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From Solo Developer to Venture Scale Entrepreneur: Jordan Boesch, CEO of 7Shifts (Part 1)

Jordan started as a solo entrepreneur in a small province of Canada, Saskatchewan, and has built a heavily funded, high-growth SaaS business. Fascinating journey!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and raised, and in what kind of background?

Jordan Boesch: I’m from Saskatchewan, a province in Canada. I’m the CEO at 7Shifts which is a team management platform. Before 7Shifts, I was a software developer for many years. I ended up working for my dad who ran some Quiznos locations.

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You got to a million ARR on the strength of those first 10 customers?

Raghu Ravinutala: No, once we got the 10, we got more. When we were at $1 million, we had 35 to 40 customers.

Sramana Mitra: You didn’t have to raise money until that point?

Raghu Ravinutala: Correct.

Sramana Mitra: How many people were you then?

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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 1)

Raghu has built an incredible AI startup from India with a global base of enterprise clients. Fabulous story!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the genesis of Yellow.ai.

Raghu Ravinutala: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of Yellow.ai. Yellow.ai enables enterprises to drive automation on their customer experiences and employee experience by integrating a whole set of enterprise data and delivering phenomenal experiences that the companies can leverage for sales, marketing, HR, and IT automation.