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Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Financing to $50 Million: GoGrid CEO, John Keagy (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: This is a behavior that we see in people who are playing with their own money as opposed to other people’s money. It can be easier to be very cavalier and generous with spending other people’s money. When it comes to your own money, you’re a lot more careful. John Keagy: Not just
Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Financing to $50 Million: GoGrid CEO, John Keagy (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: GoGrid is 100% financed by you? John Keagy: That’s right. Sramana Mitra: Tell us more about how you go about building GoGrid. What can people learn from your journey of building the company assuming that we’re taking the issue of financing off the table in this particular case because you have not raised
Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Financing to $50 Million: GoGrid CEO, John Keagy (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. John spent $200,000 to get to his first million in 18 months with GoGrid. One year from that, the company got to $5 million. Today, they are at over $50 million in revenue run-rate, all organically grown. Read John’s insights on a tightly managed entrepreneurial journey.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 4)
Vance Loiselle: Right now, the approach being taken by most organizations is, “We know there’s data out here. Let’s just go solve it with maybe a big data project on Hadoop.” There’s a huge opportunity for organizations to go look at how they address specific verticals and solve specific vertical problems – whether it be
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I think we understand what you’re doing. What are the big trends you are seeing? I want a more granular perspective on the trends you are seeing in the space that you are primarily active in. Vance Loiselle: Obviously, analytics, cloud, and big data are all big trends everybody’s talking about. If you peel
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Why don’t we take an example from each and really build on the use cases so we get a visceral feel of what specifically is going on. Vance Loiselle: Let’s start with the second one first – media. Netflix is a customer of ours. They have a couple of big trends in the
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 1)
Like most areas of IT, DevOps is going through its own reinvention through the intervention of Big Data. Let’s take a look. Sramana Mitra: Vance, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Sumo Logic. Vance Loiselle: Just a quick background on myself. I’ve been in IT for the last 20 years. I
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Naveen Sharma, Chief Innovation Officer, Retail, Xerox (Part 6)
Naveen Sharma: Many of our current service offerings started off as XTIN projects. Take for example our Ignite offering, which was the result of a bunch of researchers who had young children who were interested in how to use technology to personalize education. They went to K to 5 classrooms and observed how the teacher
