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An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What are some of the bigger strategic moves as well as accomplishments in 2013 and 2014? Cameron Weeks: We talked about the big event in 2014. It was literally a year-long event living through that whole process and uncovering what went wrong, and building better control systems to protect against it. At the
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You brought this person on as CEO? Cameron Weeks: No, I’ve always been the CEO of Fathom. We brought him in a very senior role as a Vice President. He was essentially supposed to come in and run sales and marketing, and control the revenue side of the company, which I agreed to. I’m a
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: But your target customer strategy was local. That’s how you were getting these customers, right? Cameron Weeks: That’s how we started. It was local. Once we had established the client base in the local market, we found a very well-established channel partner. They go by the term telecom partners. We found that were
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: From whom did you raise $500,000? Cameron Weeks: We got lucky. We say that this company is very blessed. One of the partners that came in was actually a VC firm from California called Small World Group. Sramana Mitra: Is this Frank Levinson? Cameron Weeks: Yes, you know Frank? Sramana Mitra: Very well,
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: It was kind of off-the-cuff basically. Cameron Weeks: Yes. As we were running the web company, we were doing that. Sramana Mitra: By the end of 2008, you had sold the web company, right? Cameron Weeks: Yes, it was closer to 2009. Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2009? What did you do next?
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like around 2008, two relatively young entrepreneurs from Indiana sold the company for upwards of a couple of a million dollars and were starting another company. Cameron Weeks: We founded this company that we operate today back in 2007 as a side project. Someone who we had worked with in the
An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 1)
It’s always thrilling for me to encounter entrepreneurs who are succeeding in off-center places, and Fathom Voice is a great example of one from Indiana. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Cameron Weeks: I
