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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev (Part 1)
Andrew has built a company with a rigorous data-driven approach. Learn how! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Andrew Filev: I was born in St. Petersburg in Russia. I got interested in computers pretty early.
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What are some of the bigger strategic moves as well as accomplishments in 2013 and 2014? Cameron Weeks: We talked about the big event in 2014. It was literally a year-long event living through that whole process and uncovering what went wrong, and building better control systems to protect against it. At the
Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Where are you now in terms of the scale of the company? Are you doing over $10 million? Gleb Budman: We’ve crossed over $10 million a year and a half ago or so. It’s still growing quickly. We now store over 150 petabytes worth of data for customers, which is about a fourth
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You brought this person on as CEO? Cameron Weeks: No, I’ve always been the CEO of Fathom. We brought him in a very senior role as a Vice President. He was essentially supposed to come in and run sales and marketing, and control the revenue side of the company, which I agreed to. I’m a
Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Content marketing is actually an extremely effective method of customer acquisition, but not everything converts. There’s content and then there’s actual conversion. The tricky thing is to make content marketing convert. There’s this brand awareness that does very well with content marketing and not in every category does content marketing convert into actual
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: But your target customer strategy was local. That’s how you were getting these customers, right? Cameron Weeks: That’s how we started. It was local. Once we had established the client base in the local market, we found a very well-established channel partner. They go by the term telecom partners. We found that were
Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You talked about the first newsletter that Amit Gupta got you into and you got several thousand sign ups from that. Is there a dominant segment type of users that stores their materials on your server? Gleb Budman: It’s all sorts of people. Photographers are a large percentage because it’s completely unlimited back
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: From whom did you raise $500,000? Cameron Weeks: We got lucky. We say that this company is very blessed. One of the partners that came in was actually a VC firm from California called Small World Group. Sramana Mitra: Is this Frank Levinson? Cameron Weeks: Yes, you know Frank? Sramana Mitra: Very well,