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Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When you started to get this thing off the ground, anecdotally and structurally, what were the next steps? Andrew Rubin: PJ and I probably first had to figure out whether or not we like each other enough to spend more time together. I know that sounds silly now in hindsight, but when you
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How has your revenue ramped from the 2007 time frame to 2015? Where are you now? Chris Grandi: We’re growing over 50% per year. In year one, we started our revenue with less than a million dollars. You grow a 100% when your revenue is smaller. Our revenue is significantly bigger now but we’re
Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do in the Valley? Andrew Rubin: In every sense of the word, people talk about luck, timing, and fate being not everything, but an important part of the story. Sramana Mitra: It’s a very big thing. Andrew Rubin: It’s an incredibly important part of the story in my case. While
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You seem to be enjoying the process of starting something, figuring a niche, and getting it to a certain amount of revenue. The first one you scaled to $50 million in revenue, which was a substantial amount of revenue. It sounds like you like to figure it out and then sell the company. Is
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What is it about the hedge fund space in terms of work flows or virtualization? What specifically is different in that space versus other verticals? Chris Grandi: There are really two things that make the hedge fund space different. One is the level of service. Because of what hedge fund managers do and
Concept Financing from Andreessen Horowitz: Andrew Rubin, CEO of Illumio (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Andrew Rubin: It was in 1998 that I graduated from university. Sramana Mitra: How long did you work in the first job? Andrew Rubin: I stayed in my first job for under five years. Sramana Mitra: This brings us to about 2003 then? Andrew Rubin:
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How much did you sell it for? Todd Dunlop: Unfortunately, I can’t disclose that. Sramana Mitra: You’ve made a substantial amount of money in that exit so that whatever you then chose to do next, you had capital available? Todd Dunlop: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: What was the next venture? Todd Dunlop: From
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What was going to be the new company? What did you find that warrants doing another company? Chris Grandi: This is one thing that I always tell the entrepreneurs I speak to. You always hear about entrepreneurs who start a company when they’re super young and don’t have a lot of experience, and