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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 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
Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 4)
Sramana: How did you meet and get to know Mark Morrison, your co-founder? Ian Clemens: We were introduced by a mutual acquaintance who was an employee of Mark’s at his previous company. This person had talked with me and understood what my vision and goal was. Mark had been a serial entrepreneur, so the two
Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 3)
Sramana: At that point did you start selling visualization software as a product? Ian Clemens: We do a lot of that now at IDV Solutions. We are definitely a software solutions company. However, we did not sell any products like that at the consulting firm. After I left the consulting firm I went to another
Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 2)
Sramana: Did you begin doing data visualization work within the scope of your consulting work? Ian Clemens: Yes. I was consulting, but I kept wondering what the best way to deliver the results of the consulting would be. Traditionally that is done through charts and reports. I really became interested in how to better deliver