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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m going to start asking you very deep questions because I did a startup in the sales lead generation area back in 1997. It used NLP and the whole AI stream. It was a bit early. It was well before the Internet had completely established itself. I know a lot about this area
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about your thinking around that. It sounds like there’s a philosophy around being self-financed. You must be getting lots of calls from private equity all the time. Faisal Husain: Yes, we’ve been getting calls for several years. I have met all of them and am on fairly good terms with them. In
Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There’s a lot of controversy around whether virtual teams scale. Taso Du Val has scaled a sizeable business using a virtual team. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal entrepreneurial journey.
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year did you leave Summit to do this? Vincent Yang: I left Summit in 2012. I didn’t start the company back then. I actually went to Stanford Business School. I already had the idea. We raised some angel money. It was in Stanford where I started the company. We hired a bunch
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Where is your team? Is it all in New York? Faisal Husain: We started out of New Jersey. We had a development center in India from day one, because almost all of our clients were interested in leveraging the global delivery model to manage the cost in these projects. To your question about
Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: That brings us to 2009? Vincent Yang: That brings us to early 2010. Sramana Mitra: Then what happens next? Vincent Yang: Then, I moved to Palo Alto. When I was in JP Morgan, my main job was to analyze companies. In particular, I developed a mathematical model to analyze public companies. It’s very
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like you did a bunch of e-commerce systems at a couple of hundred thousand dollars a pop in the early days of the company. What’s the next major milestone? How long did it take you to get to a $100 million in revenue, for instance? Faisal Husain: We started in mid-2001.
Taking On The Big Guys: Chrome River Co-Founder and COO Dave Terry (Part 7)
Dave Terry: Our competitors were historically Concur and the big ERP players who have their own shallow apps and then some of the older generation products. While they aren’t out there actively selling, they are supporting their own customers and attempting upgrades. In that market, the older vendors are beginning to be dismissed by most of