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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $26M and a Fabulous Exit
When we spoke in 2021, Founder CEO Vamsi Kora had bootstrapped Gathi Analytics to over $26 million in revenue in four years and exited at a fabulous multiple. Much to learn from his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Frank Bien, CEO of Looker (Part 5)
Frank Bien: Let’s go back to the HotelTonight example. There’s no way the data would have understood that there was a correlation between these two data metrics that they had identified. Those were two different business teams that independently built these views of their business. Then one them says, “ Let’s put this together and see what
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Frank Bien, CEO of Looker (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s look at your big picture. Bring it up to industry level and tell me more about what trends you are seeing from your vantage point in the Big Data world. Frank Bien: My entry into data has only been during this Big Data trend – right after 9/11 when Web 2.0 was happening. In
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Frank Bien, CEO of Looker (Part 3)
Frank Bien: They saw, of course, that people who were booking hotels were also referring customers because they had a great service. What they also saw was that people who are not using the service were referring the most number of customers. In a lot of organizations, when they see something like that, the thinking
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. If you were starting a company today, what unsolved problem would you be looking at? Radhika Subramanian: Education. Sramana Mitra: What about education? Have you given it any further thought? Education is going through a massive disruption right now.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: I think what made Google happen is their business model innovation. Radhika Subramanian: It was their business model, but it was also the fact that it was ranked search as opposed to just search. There are some of those parallels here as well. I don’t know how many times we hear this where
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Are there any competitors that offer that? Radhika Subramanian: Not exactly in this one thing that Emcien does well, which is complete automation of the analysis. In that one thing, we do not have a direct competitor. In that, I think, we’re creating this blue ocean strategy. Sramana Mitra: Since we’ve already done
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 4)
Radhika Subramanian: It’s a method that extracts all of those queries – what we call non-node queries. Send the data and say, “These are all the questions you should have asked. I’m going to rank it for you the way Google does. With that, I will isolate just the core of what you need to
