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Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 5)
Sramana: How did you go from running a calling card site, e-card site, and birthday alert system to building Sonico? Rodrigo Teijeiro: In 2007 we were observing MySpace. We realized it was not a difficult site to build. I had the team and the knowledge as well as the marketing skill. We investigated the product
Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 4)
Sramana: How big is your calling card business now? Rodrigo Teijeiro: The calling card business became an $8 billion business with very big profits. While running that calling card business, I noticed something interesting. I was always trying to optimize the buys off the website, and I noticed that one type of site that would
Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 3)
Sramana: So you essentially stopped your business and went to school at USC. How did that transition go for you? Rodrigo Teijeiro: My first semester at USC went well; I got all As. The problem was that I had too much time on my hands and it was a bit boring. I told myself that
Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 2)
Sramana: What was your next step after you lost $70,000 from your personal portfolio? Rodrigo Teijeiro: When I lost that money, the markets were still at a point where the boom was up and running. I knew the business models of all of those companies intimately and knew that I could run one of them.
Bootstrapping A Latin American Social Networking Powerhouse With 50 Million Users: Sonico CEO Rodrigo Teijeiro (Part 1)
Rodrigo Teijeiro is the founder and CEO of Sonico, a social network for Latin America. He studied business administration at the University of Southern California and economics at theUniversidad de San Andrés. He is a self-proclaimed Internet addict and was able to position Sonico as the social network of choice for Latin America in just
From Mannarakoil To CEO Of Global Scholar: Kal Raman’s Journey (Part 7)
Sramana: Global Scholar was funded by [Michael] Milken, so why did you decide to sell the company last year? Kal Raman: As passionate as I am about the vision, I am equally passionate about the business. Every company is up for sell at the right price. In 2010, I was missing two modules for a
From Mannarakoil To CEO Of Global Scholar: Kal Raman’s Journey (Part 6)
Sramana: Do you ask students or teachers to fill in personal profiles, or does your system function purely from collaborative filtering? Kal Raman: We do it entirely via collaborative filtering because we have all the data we would need. We know your age, grade, test scores, scores last year, and state tests. We know your
From Mannarakoil To CEO Of Global Scholar: Kal Raman’s Journey (Part 5)
Sramana: Would you give me a granular view of what the initial product was that you launched in 2009? Kal Raman: If you look at a school today, on an average day they will use 14 different software vendors. They have a system to manage student demographic data which is the student information system. They