Roundtable Recap: February 5 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Chris Gladwin, Founder of Cleversafe

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my new book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Chris Gladwin, CEO of Cleversafe. Chris has built a highly valuable company using a unique and impressive IP strategy in the enterprise storage space. We discussed fat startups, valuation of patent portfolios, and more. KaraokeDJ.com As for the pitches, first

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Roundtable Recap: January 29 – Billion Dollar Unicorns With Vineet Jain, CEO of Egnyte

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my new book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Vineet Jain, founder and CEO of Egnyte, a potential Unicorn company in the same space as the much-hyped Box – Cloud Storage and File Sharing. In this discussion, we did a deep-dive on the space and how it is likely

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Roundtable Recap: January 22 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Warren Weiss, Foundation Capital

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my new book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with a special guest, Warren “Bunny” Weiss, General Partner, Foundation Capital. I have known Bunny for many years, and he has a long track record in the Silicon Valley venture capital industry. Bunny shared areas he and Foundation are excited about

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Roundtable Recap: January 15 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Aaron Skonnard, CEO of Pluralsight

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my new book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with a special guest. Aaron Skonnard, founder and CEO of Pluralsight, one of the very few EdTech ventures out there that are scaling at Unicorn levels, discussed his journey over the last decade. Aaron bootstrapped Pluralsight to $16 million in revenue

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Help me rationalize what’s happening right now in the market regarding late-stage valuation bubbles. We have two kinds of bubbles in the startup venture world. One is in the seed capital. In 2013, 70,000 companies were angel-financed. That’s too much actually. It’s great that they got angel-funded, but then if you look at

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: This time around, are there any surprises in the product market fit process? You repeated the same process, I imagine. Gaurav Dhillon: The same thing but with a twist. With Informatica, the timing was spot on. The change was happening in a big way. Year 2000 was coming. From the time we raised venture

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The story is very different for a Dave Duffield starting Workday or a Gaurav Dhillon starting SnapLogic, because most of the people who are starting companies without that kind of track record do not have the options that you have. They have to figure out some way to navigate that early cash issue. Gaurav

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New Book Launch – Billion Dollar Unicorns

While the vast majority of entrepreneurs today are trying to figure out how to build billion dollar Unicorn companies, Venture Capitalists have always been looking for Unicorns to fund. And yet, the probability of founding or funding a Unicorn is, by definition, minuscule. Over 10,000 companies are born every year that go out to seek

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