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Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You started this in 2007? Gleb Budman: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: You self-financed it with your colleagues? Gleb Budman: We did. It was definitely a long, crazy journey. Five of us committed to a year without salary. That would be the seed round. We then had two more people who joined us. We call
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: It was kind of off-the-cuff basically. Cameron Weeks: Yes. As we were running the web company, we were doing that. Sramana Mitra: By the end of 2008, you had sold the web company, right? Cameron Weeks: Yes, it was closer to 2009. Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2009? What did you do next?
Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I noticed that you said solve the problem that people were not backing up data. You can create back-up opportunities. How do you solve the problem that people were not backing up data? Gleb Budman: The reason I say that what we were trying to do was solve that problem was because back-up
Serial Entrepreneur from Alberta, Canada: Michael Sikorsky, CEO of Robots and Pencils (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What do you do? Michael Sikorsky: I happened to be in New York. I was connected to lots of stuff around investing and crowdsourcing to venture capital. The iPhone comes out. I had that lightning bolt feeling when the Internet came out. Now, I’m a lot older. I’ve been through multiple companies. I even
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like around 2008, two relatively young entrepreneurs from Indiana sold the company for upwards of a couple of a million dollars and were starting another company. Cameron Weeks: We founded this company that we operate today back in 2007 as a side project. Someone who we had worked with in the
Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year did this acquisition happen? Gleb Budman: It happened in March 2000. Sramana Mitra: Good timing. What happens next? Gleb Budman: I worked there until it went out of business. It was going to get acquired by ComCast and I was on the team that was working to package the assets for sale.
Serial Entrepreneur from Alberta, Canada: Michael Sikorsky, CEO of Robots and Pencils (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: I got it. How many people did you have in the company that you were essentially renting out? Michael Sikorsky: It was very fast. It went from 0 to 65 people in nine months. Sramana Mitra: Then you sold the company to whom? Michael Sikorsky: To my business partner. It was almost like
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 1)
It’s always thrilling for me to encounter entrepreneurs who are succeeding in off-center places, and Fathom Voice is a great example of one from Indiana. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Cameron Weeks: I