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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Media buying has been the most obvious areas which needed to be automated because of the trends that you described. Machine learning applies very well into that space. Can you talk about other areas in marketing technology, where, powered by machine learning, there is venture-scale opportunity? Ashu Garg: I’m going to talk about
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: You spoke with me a year back about marketing technologies. It was a core area of interest at least a year ago. Help us understand what drives that interest. Ashu Garg: That is absolutely a core area of interest for us. I would say it is one of the trends in the broad
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ashu Garg of Foundation Capital (Part 1)
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital was recorded in March 2016. Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, outlines the top trends driving startups and venture capital from his firm’s perspective. Sramana Mitra: What is your
10 Founders On How They Built Their Unicorn Startups In Podcasts
Entrepreneurs looking for some great advice and inspiration from some super successful Founders who have each built a Unicorn company from the ground up, should have a listen to these 30-minute podcast interviews. Daniel Cane, CEO and Co-founder of Modernizing Medicine, has followed a unique and tremendously effective strategy of raising equity crowdfunding from his
A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What was the trigger to leave Peoplesoft? Peter Gassner: The management team had changed at Peoplesoft. I had started as a developer there. At the end of nine years, I was handling a team of 500 people. I worked hard there. I loved the team I assembled. Then, the management team changed. Culture changed
A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Peter Gassner is a self-described late bloomer. In a wonderfully authentic interview, Peter describes here how he turned his middle-age crisis into a multi-billion dollar market cap company. Veeva, in 2016, will do well over $500 million in revenue and trades at a market cap of
Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I have three questions as you were relating that portion of the story. It sounds like this is an experimental period. Were you financing this period yourself? Yaron Galai: Yes. I did finance our early days. I also had a couple of our investors at Quigo. Sramana Mitra: The second question is the people
Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You sold at the right time because after the iPhone and mobile advertising, the whole ad rate world just collapsed. Yaron Galai: Generally, it did. We sold at a very pretty good time. I do know that just by talking to a friend from AOL that they kept running Quigo as an independent
