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Peruvian Entrepreneur, Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Belisario Rosas, CEO of WEI (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You were doing, more or less, the same thing that the company you were working for was doing? Belisario Rosas: Yes, very much. We just continued accepting clients that we were dealing with or looking for new clients. Sramana Mitra: How did that ramp? Belisario Rosas: Like I said earlier, we started with
Building a Capital Marketplace for Mid-Market Businesses: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: In the event that you’re using equity as a financial instrument, is the expectation exit or do you also do dividend style financing? Peter Lehrman: We don’t do any of it. We’re the platform that connects the entrepreneurs with the investors. Those decisions are determined by the investors in partnership with the entrepreneurs
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Wrike CEO Andrew Filev (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do this a bit chronologically. You finished college in what year? Andrew Filev: A little bit more than a decade ago, I think. Sramana Mitra: The Internet was in full swing in 2005. You were still in Russia at this point? Andrew Filev: Yes, I was still in Russia. I was eager
Peruvian Entrepreneur, Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Belisario Rosas, CEO of WEI (Part 1)
We hear a lot from Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs. We hear some from Europeans. But thus far, not as much from Latin American entrepreneurs. Belisario Rosas is Peruvian, and is also interested in fostering further entrepreneurship in Latin America. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from?
Building a Capital Marketplace for Mid-Market Businesses: Axial CEO Peter Lehrman (Part 1)
Capital marketplaces are quite the trend these days. This story traces the evolution of Axial. This is a very different marketplace from AngelList. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some context and background of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Peter Lehrman: I was
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