Sramana Mitra: When you started in 2012, how did you get your business off the ground? Mike Whitmire: When I started, I was just a senior accountant. I had no money. I had no entrepreneurial experience. My first line of thinking was, “If I’m going to start a SaaS company, I’d probably need to take
When Mike started FloQast, no one knew about Blackline or the account reconciliation opportunity. Although Blackline was already a sizable company, it was little-known, bootstrapped, and away from the public eye. Read how FloQast went for the same market, although with a different positioning, and achieved success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning