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Do You Want To Have Dinner With The Guy You Want To Hire? Christos Cotsakos, Founder Of ETrade And CEO Of EndPlay (Part 6)
Sramana: From a point of view you want diversity, but you also need to have some form of basic chemistry. I am very picky about whom I want at my house for dinner! Christos Cotsakos: Exactly. That is the gating factor. If you are going to work closely with an entrepreneurial team, you better make
Do You Want To Have Dinner With The Guy You Want To Hire? Christos Cotsakos, Founder Of ETrade And CEO Of EndPlay (Part 5)
Sramana: What is the price point of the product? Christos Cotsakos: It is a SaaS licensing arrangement along with professional services associated with it. It goes anywhere from $250,000 to $2.5 million a year. Sramana: Is it a user-based model? Christos Cotsakos: It is done on a client basis. Our clients publish their media on
Do You Want To Have Dinner With The Guy You Want To Hire? Christos Cotsakos, Founder Of ETrade And CEO Of EndPlay (Part 4)
Sramana: How did you finance such an expensive advertising campaign? Christos Cotsakos: We raised about $50 million with our initial public offering. We raised $120 million from our second offering and we raised $400 million in our private placement offering. Before our IPO we were advertising selectively. A full-page ad in the WSJ will get noticed
Do You Want To Have Dinner With The Guy You Want To Hire? Christos Cotsakos, Founder Of ETrade And CEO Of EndPlay (Part 3)
Sramana: What was it about E*Trade that made you consider that job? Christos Cotsakos: There were a lot of jobs that I was looking at. The first thing that struck me was that it was a David versus Goliath story, and I have always liked those types of stories. It was a little upstart against
Do You Want To Have Dinner With The Guy You Want To Hire? Christos Cotsakos, Founder Of ETrade And CEO Of EndPlay (Part 2)
Sramana: Where does your story go from there? What did you do when you graduated from Paterson State College? Christos Cotsakos: I got accepted at UCLA to go for a masters degree. I also got married when I met my wife during summer school there. I was looking for a job and found one at
Do You Want To Have Dinner With The Guy You Want To Hire? Christos Cotsakos, Founder Of ETrade And CEO Of EndPlay (Part 1)
Christos Cotsakos is the founding chairman, CEO and president of EndPlay, a Software as a service provider of web content management solutions to enterprise clients in media, entertainment, and education. After enlisting in the Army in and serving a tour through Vietnam, he began his career as a package handler at Federal Experss. In 1988
Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 6)
Sramana: Your company started in 2004. How have you grown throughout the years? Ian Clemens: Through 2007 growth was very rapid. We went from two people to 50 people in three years. We rapidly grew to the $3 million to $4 million dollar range. We had flat years in 2008 and 2009 due to the
Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 5)
Sramana: Did you feel secure with the amount of debt you took on when you compared it to your service contract revenues? Ian Clemens: Yes we did. We had to hire a development staff early on and started making those hires in February. We have always charged a fair rate for our work and hired