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Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: $3 million was raised from whom? Jason Wells: They are a private investment group out of New York. They’re not a traditional venture capital firm. They’re more of a Warren Buffet type of an organization, which makes about one or two investments a year in public companies. They didn’t have a portfolio for
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What were the levers for scaling this? What strategy did you take to scale this business? Jason Wells: Strategy number one was to change the business from a professional services business into a software business. There was some back-end technology and some software that was built to help them do these things, but the
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What happens after Sony? Jason Wells: That leads me to where we are today – Convirza and a few other company names in between that process. My brother-in-law Jeremiah Wilson started a company back in 2001 called Contact Point. He was the typical entrepreneur. He just went ahead and did it. He started a professional services
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You left in 2005? Jason Wells: Yes, I left in 2005. I was tapped by a recruiter from Sony Pictures. Sony Pictures wanted to start and build a mobile content business around the world. They’ve got every movie asset. They have licensing rights for games and content. We had a 60-person development team to create creating mobile
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What happens in 2000? Jason Wells: I had spent a lot of time internationally while at A.T. Kearney. In January of 2000, I left A.T. Kearney to start my first entrepreneurial venture. The company was called Globient. This was at the peak of the dot-com era. There were many companies that were in mezzanine
Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 1)
We’ve covered several stories of tech startups in Utah. Convirza is yet another interesting company from the mini tech hub. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jason Wells: I was born and raised in Fresno,
Entrepreneurship in Utah: Blackrock CEO Andy Gotshalk (Part 2)
Andy Gotshalk: I also started taking some classes and thought about the idea of going to business school full-time. I never went back to business school so to this day, I still don’t have an MBA. I did take some key classes along the way, which provided a good foundation for me. The biggest thing
