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entrepreneur journeys
Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Can you pause a moment there and explain why you were able to deliver these enhanced open rates? What was the trick in that? Adam Robinson: It wasn’t actually the rate. We just aimed for 50% more opens. We built an automation tool where we sent your campaign out. After sending the mails,
Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 2)
Adam Robinson: My brother came to me, “I’m using this customer review management and email marketing product called Rake Point. I just got an email saying they’re shutting their website down and I need to download the data.” He’s like, “As a really useful product, these guys raised $25 million. I know he spent a
Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 1)
Entrepreneurs love to discuss success. Few are willing to discuss what they tried and failed at. Adam does a terrific job of sharing his journey through various failed experiments to a model that is now gaining traction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? Loris Degioanni: We charge based on the number of machines that they need to manage with our platform. It’s the typical function of the number of servers that you’re running. Sramana Mitra: What is the next milestone after you started monetizing? What are some of the major milestones based
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: The $2.5 million of seed capital that you raised, what was the next milestone? How long did it take you from there to deliver your first product? Loris Degioanni: Based on my background and experience with open source, I decided that I wanted to approach this second adventure with an open source philosophy.
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 5)
Loris Degioanni: These dynamics towards micro-services means that these companies can essentially break their software into smaller pieces and then use APIs to talk to each other. This spawned a massive industry that is led by the cloud vendors and by open source projects like Kubernetes. I witnessed the creation of these industries and immediately
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You started your next company in 2012? Loris Degioanni: 2013. I left Riverbed in 2012. My rotation period with Riverbed was for two years. Despite being very happy at Riverbed and despite learning a lot, I was infected with the bug of being an entrepreneur. It’s really hard to get rid of. Even
Building Two Open-Source Startups in a Row: Sysdig CEO Loris Degioanni (Part 3)
Loris Degioanni: What we did was, we created a new project based on the same code base. It was called Wireshark. This was 2006. Wireshark was an immediate success. We put a bunch of resources behind it. We told Gerald, “Just keep working on this and make the community happy.” After 13 years, Wireshark is
