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Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Where are you today from the revenue range point of view? John Underkoffler: Our revenues are now well into the respectable double digits – that’s with two commas. We’re vectoring towards an intermediate goal of a hundred million dollar run rate. The proposition that we’re working on is broad enough for it to be a very
Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What else happened? It sounds like it’s a fairly straightforward enterprise software go-to market strategy. The beauty of that strategy is that you get these large deals and good cash flow. I think we understand that model. Is there anything else you did strategically that was particularly interesting? John Underkoffler: We’ve made it
Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about the commercial. How much did these three major accounts pay you to do their projects? John Underkoffler: I will probably decline to give actual numerical figures in this context. This was more than enough to keep us going as a young startup. Sramana Mitra: This was
Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You did a PhD as well at MIT? John Underkoffler: I did. I stuck it through. Sramana Mitra: What was your PhD in? John Underkoffler: My PhD was in a set of systems called the IO bulb and luminous room. The intent was to show, through prototypes, what would happen if we abandon
