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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s take that story chronologically. You started that in 2004? Todd Dunlop: Yes. We always talked about how we got started. It was sort of bootstrapping. Sramana Mitra: You said AdWords was just coming on. You essentially helped companies understand AdWords and market through AdWords. That’s what you were doing? Todd Dunlop: We
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the next move after Maxim? Chris Grandi: I took a pretty divergent turn. I thought that maybe I wanted to be in Wall Street. I joined the Goldman Sachs Associate program out of Harvard Business School and joined their fixed income group. I was an associate in that group specifically focusing
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You were able to cater to all that from Prague? Vince Steckler: Both from Prague and the community. Prague is very cosmopolitan. We can do a lot of support and customization but what’s most important is the community. Most users don’t realize where the company is from. Brazilians tend to think the company
A Serial Entrepreneur’s Process: Todd Dunlop, CEO of RingPartner (Part 1)
Most serial entrepreneurs have figured out certain unique ways in which they operate. In this story, we get to learn about Todd’s process. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Todd Dunlop: I was born in
Bootstrapping a Virtualization Services Company: Chris Grandi, CEO of Abacus Group (Part 1)
Chris had significant domain knowledge in the hedge fund industry. He has self-financed a successful company offering to secure virtualization services to the segment with high service levels. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Chris
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me how you got there. Vince Steckler: It’s basically a few things. When the company went into France, we started at the community side. The competition in France at that time had English language products, which doesn’t really go very real well in France. So we built a French language product. Since
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 4)
Vince Steckler: It was very intriguing because it was a very engineering-oriented company. Of the 40 people, there was one person in Finance, one person in Marketing and Sales, and 38 engineers. They weren’t doing very good business because there wasn’t anyone paying attention to it. I actually joined there taking what people would probably consider
Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How much were they doing at that point? Vince Steckler: In 2008, they did about $18 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: This was all self-financed? Vince Steckler: Yes. The company had actually never taken any investment into its treasury. The company, by the way, is a Unicorn. We’re worth well over a billion