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From Developer to Successful Entrepreneur with Exit: ACCELQ CEO Mahendra Alladi (Part 1)
Mahendra transitioned from a developer to a successful entrepreneur with his first company, exited it, and then started ACCELQ. ACCELQ already has 200 customers and is a profitable, bootstrapped company growing fast. A wonderful and inspiring story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you
From Hard Core Techie to Successful Entrepreneur: Francis Dinha, CEO of OpenVPN (Part 1)
Francis has bootstrapped OpenVPN to $3M ARR with JUST $1M in financing. Wonderful story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Francis Dinha: I was born in northern Iraq in a place called Amadiya. I lived there
From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Hevo Data CEO Manish Jethani (Part 1)
Manish discusses his various experiences with customer validation in great depth, as well as his journey from being a hard-core developer geek to a successful entrepreneur CEO who has raised multiple rounds of venture capital from top firms including Sequoia Capital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you
From Hardcore Techie to Unicorn Entrepreneur: Dheeraj Pandey, Founder of Nutanix (Part 1)
Inspiring story of a passionate technical founder who has built one of the iconic fast growth Unicorns in the tech industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
From MIT PhD Student to Machine Learning Entrepreneur: Verta.ai CEO Manasi Vartak (Part 1)
Manasi made the journey from a technologist to a founder CEO, raised over $10M in funding, and has built over $5M in revenue with her first startup.Amazing execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?
From Developer to 2-Time Successful AI Entrepreneur with Exits: Behamics CEO Valon Xhafa (Part 1)
Valon is a software developer who made a successful transition to an entrepreneur and had a quick exit with his first venture. His second venture is already at $5M+ in revenues with just a pre-seed round of financing. This venture, Behemics, has already received two acquisition offers. Fabulous story!
558th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Balakrishna, Adya (Part 1)
Deepak Balakrishna, Co-founder CEO of Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. We review his lessons from the trenches, steering a Bootstrapping to Exit transaction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with at the 1Mby1M premium program with Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. Qualys, as you might know, is a public cyber security company. Adya was also
Solo Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Money Later in Utah: GuideCX CEO Peter Ord (Part 1)
We’re big fans of solo entrepreneurs. Peter validated his business with real paying customers before he raised money; always the best strategy. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?