14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life

14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life

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14 Minutes of SaaS - founder stories on business, tech and life episodes

  • E81 – Winnie Lee, COO & Co-founder at Appier – 1 of 2 – Molecular to Artificial Intelligence
    Stephen Cummins interviews Winnie Lee, COO and Co-founder of Appier  – an AI driven platform that helps enterprise scale B2B entities make better marketing decisions.HQ’d in the city of Taipei, Appier also has offices in japan and Singapore, and has raised 80M USD since this interview. The newspaper Taiwan News recently claimed that Appier is a new unicorn. Part 1 of a 2 episode interview that took place at RISE, Hong Kong
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    14 min
  • E80 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 5 of 5. The Rocket’s Red Button
    Episode 80 of 14 Minutes is the final one of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "I talked a little bit about why Myspace lost. We were not narrow. We were in every vertical you ever could be in. So, in the early stage, you have to be ruthless about doing one thing great and not many things kind of okay ... I think this is where a lot of founders struggle, because they're smart people … they have so many ideas"
    15 min
  • E79 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 4 of 5. Freedom to Thrive
    Episode 79 of 14 Minutes of SaaS is the fourth instalment of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "We're trying not to allow [Whereby] to become a large feature, bloated product, which is what happened to Skype, what happened to WebEx, and happening to so many these products. Zoom feels get might be going down that path .. I'm going to be a thorn in their side. And if they're not thinking about us, they will be soon"
    16 min
  • E78 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 3 of 5. Loving Life & Janteloven in Oslo
    Episode 78 of 14 Minutes of SaaS is the third part of a 5-episode mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "Dave McClure is slight controversial in some cases, but still a really good guy. Dave invested in Wittlebee ... And he said to me ‘I'm going to invest 50K dollars ... I don't think this is gonna work out though. And if it doesn't work out and you need a job, I want you to contact me first, that's all I ask.’"
    15 min
  • E77 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 2 of 5. Small is Beautiful too
    Episode 77 of 14 Minutes of SaaS is the second instalment of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "That Wittlebee was a great business ... a year into it, we were making almost 3M dollars in annual revenue. Recurring revenue. And so it was going good, but the VCs were just like ‘Go! Go! Go!’ And I'm like, ‘Wait a minute. My inventory is breaking. My supply chain is not like ironed out. Like we're growing too fast.’ And they're like ‘Perfect. Keep doing that! And here's a little bit more money!’"
    16 min
  • E76 – Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, Ex 500 Startups. 1 of 5. Inventing the Social Graph
    Episode 76 of 14 Minutes is the first of a 5-part mini-series. Stephen Cummins chats with Sean Percival, CMO at Whereby, formerly of 500 Startups and Myspace. "Myspace was a cultural phenomenon. It was on the news every night. It was everyone's top. We were the first to kind of build the social graph - which everything is built on now. You know, Facebook, Linked, everything has a social graph. And we really started around that too. So, I mean it was everywhere. It was unavoidable .. Facebook were big data smart. And we were data dumb. We just didn't know really what was going on there. This is a big reason that Facebook won"
    15 min
  • E75 – Jonathan Anguelov, COO & Co-Founder of Aircall. 4 of 4. Unicorn Desires
    E75 - Part 4 and concluding episode of a mini-series with Jonathan Anguelov, co-founder and COO of Aircall. In this final episode we find out about Jonathan’s beliefs regarding a lot of faster developing tech areas – and, more importantly, why they should be adopted and introduced into the business with caution. And - he has some amazing advice for anyone seeking to start a business.
    13 min
  • E74 – Jonathan Anguelov, COO & Co-Founder of Aircall. 3 of 4. Sales Fordism.
    E74 - Part 3 of a 4-part mini-series with Jonathan Anguelov, co-founder and COO of Aircall. Jonathan doesn’t see VC rounds as reasons to celebrate, but he does see VC as a no-brainer if the ambition is both huge and urgent – and his vision is to build the future of telephony in less than 10 years. He reveals a love for open office working - and explains why he believes in ever-increasing employee specialisation and Sales Fordism as they take on the challenge of onboarding 10 new employees a week.
    17 min
  • E73 – Jonathan Anguelov, COO & Co-Founder of Aircall. 2 of 4. VC is about Accelerated Execution.
    E73 - Part 2 of a 4-part mini-series with Jonathan Anguelov, co-founder and COO of Aircall.
    In this episode Jonathan talks about growing up in Paris with an inspiring Mum who immigrated from Bulgaria and became a business person, giving Jonathan a front row seat into the ups and downs of being an entrepreneur. It didn’t put him off because he started his career as an entrepreneur while still in university, aged 20.
    15 min

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