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Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Also, what you have going in your favour is that the market is starting to understand that on the Internet, content is the brand. I think that understanding is going to drive further and further into the industry in general. Yaron Galai: I don’t view Facebook as being in the business of social networks
Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: The publishers are paying a lot more than $10 a month. Yaron Galai: We kept it, initially, at $10 a month but it couldn’t sustain them that way. The publishers said, “If you let us pay on a per-click basis, then we know exactly how many audience we get.” We pivoted on the
A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Computer Science is not ambiguous. It’s clear and logical. Part of the thing that I’ve observed at this point in my life, having seen a little bit of life, is that there is a lot of ambiguity and a lot of lack in logic in how human beings operate. I’m a very rational,
Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The ratings and the Internet recommendations were free. There were no monetization model around any of that? Yaron Galai: That’s right. Sramana Mitra: The first monetization effort was with the paid recommendation of external content into these larger publishers. What was wrong? Why did the first iteration fail?
A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Peter Gassner is a self-described late bloomer. In a wonderfully authentic interview, Peter describes here how he turned his middle-age crisis into a multi-billion dollar market cap company. Veeva, in 2016, will do well over $500 million in revenue and trades at a market cap of
Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I have three questions as you were relating that portion of the story. It sounds like this is an experimental period. Were you financing this period yourself? Yaron Galai: Yes. I did finance our early days. I also had a couple of our investors at Quigo. Sramana Mitra: The second question is the people
The Story of a $9M Lifestyle Business: Kean Graham, CEO of MonetizeMore (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Now we’re talking 2015 and you’re trying to recover from this fiasco. Kean Graham: This was the beginning of 2014. Sramana Mitra: You did this $2 million in 2013 and early 2014, you had this fiasco. That revenue was basically being forfeited. Kean Graham: Yes, all revoked. Sramana Mitra: What was the recourse?
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Lessons Learned: .CLUB CEO Colin Campbell (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: It’s a very interesting angle to entrepreneurship that you shared. Colin Campbell: I have a unique perspective in that I’ve done company after company. I’ve worked at a larger company. The interesting thing is you begin to see patterns emerge. This is where I’ve been able to learn a bit of a formula