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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
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