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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 1)
I did a company in the sales lead generation and qualification space using Artificial Intelligence back in 1998. We were very, very early. It’s exciting to see the movements in the space, and how EverString is succeeding almost 20 years later. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where are you
Taking On The Big Guys: Chrome River Co-Founder and COO Dave Terry (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: At the end of 2013, you put in this $17 million. At this point, you have about $20 million of external capital in the company. Dave Terry: That’s exactly right. Then we put that to work in the exact same manner. It was really proportional. We now have even more international sales. We are setting up more
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What was the concept around which you founded Synechron? Faisal Husain: The concept was based on being a customer of this industry. I saw a gap in the service that I was getting from the company out in the market. The gap was that they didn’t have sufficient business skills. The whole outsourcing model
Scaling a Technology Company Against Major Competitors: Solix CEO Sai Gundavelli (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch the questioning. Tell us about how your business has ramped. You started in about 2003 and you’ve, obviously, evolved and maneuvered well strategically. What has been your revenue trajectory? Where are you now? What kind of growth rates are you experiencing? Sai Gundavelli: For the first five years, we were really
Taking On The Big Guys: Chrome River Co-Founder and COO Dave Terry (Part 5)
Dave Terry: The company had been growing at a really nice growth rate. I think at that point we were in the Inc. 500 list two or three years in a row. We were really funding things out of profits but we had a few investors calling us constantly. We thought that we can keep
Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Faisal is one of those rare entrepreneurs who have managed to grow his business with no outside financing to significant scale. We discuss his journey here. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Where are you
Scaling a Technology Company Against Major Competitors: Solix CEO Sai Gundavelli (Part 6)
Sai Gundavelli: We also did two killer partnerships. One is with a company called Kronos and the other one is with EDT. We made them put OEM on our products. They also had a lot of data that they needed to archive. They’re implementing our product in all their customers. We’re getting all the seeding with
Taking On The Big Guys: Chrome River Co-Founder and COO Dave Terry (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Did it give you a sense of how much they were willing to buy it for if you built it? Dave Terry: Absolutely. We established the price and had agreement on everything. Sramana Mitra: What was that price that they agreed to buy it at? Dave Terry: We probably shouldn’t get into those