10 Founder CEOs Discuss Building Tech Startups Worth Millions in Podcasts
Summary
Al Lalani, Founder of Social Annex – Discusses why he has followed his capital-efficient entrepreneurship strategy, and how he has managed to win against competitors who have each raised tens of millions in funding. Blaine Vess, Co-founder of StudyMode – Discusses how he made multiple business model shifts, and eventually scaled his company to $20 million in revenue with a sub 1% freemium conversion rate. Ernie Bray, Founder CEO at Auto Claims Direct (ACD) – Has built a 50-person team with 80% of the organization working virtually from different parts of the US. Chris Gladwin, CEO of Cleversafe – Has built a highly valuable company using a unique and impressive IP strategy in the enterprise storage space. Arjun Dev Arora, Founder of ReTargeter – As also a Venture Partner at 500 Startups, he has a great deal of domain expertise in AdTech, and we spent most of the discussion on that topic.