Ideas to Invoices
110 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsInterviews with successful entrepreneurs, many of whom have built and sold companies, featuring lessons learned in the process and advice for others wishing to become entrepreneurs. This podcast is a product of Silicon Hills News, a six year old technology news site covering companies and people in the Austin and San Antonio technology region in Texas.
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Amos Schwartzfarb, Managing Director of Techstars Austin
August 24, 2019 04:20 - 25 minutes - 35.6 MBAmos Schwartzfarb is the managing director of Techstars Austin. He took over the job from Jason Seats in 2015 and has graduated three classes of startups under his direction. Before joining Techstars, Schwartzfarb served as head of customer development at Joust. Previously, he was vice president of customer development at BlackLocus, which was acquired by The Home Depot in 2012. And he was co-founder and served as Chief Operating Officer of mySpoonful, which was acquired in 2011. He also...
Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe on the 46th Anniversary of Ethernet
May 22, 2019 07:15 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBEthernet’s 46th anniversary is Wednesday, May 22nd and on this occasion, Silicon Hills News has done a special edition Ideas to Invoices podcast with Bob Metcalfe, founder of Ethernet.
Ethernet Inventor Bob Metcalfe on the 46th Anniversary of Ethernet
May 22, 2019 07:15 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBEthernet’s 46th anniversary is Wednesday, May 22nd and on this occasion, Silicon Hills News has done a special edition Ideas to Invoices podcast with Bob Metcalfe, founder of Ethernet.
Barry Mione, Co-Founder of SaveDay
April 26, 2019 20:57 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MBBarry Mione is a Co-Founder and President of SaveDay.com, a startup that provides 401K plans to small businesses. SaveDay, with four employees, is relocating from California to Austin. Mione is currently participating in the latest SputnikATX cohort. During the podcast, Mione discusses how the company got started, the growing need to provide 401K retirement plans to individuals who work for small companies and plans for its future growth. SaveDay has about 2,000 participants currently and ma...
Sridhar Vembu, CEO and Founder
April 12, 2019 22:53 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MBSridhar Vembu, CEO and Founder of Zoho, just announced plans to move Zoho's corporate headquarters from Pleasanton, Calif. to Austin, Texas. Vembu discusses plans for the Austin campus and mentions he would like to create an Indian village there where employees work, play and live. Founded in 1996, Zoho is financially bootstrapped and plans to remain that way. The company does not participate in merger and acquisition activities largely because of the negative impact on customers associ...
Dave Sikora, CEO of ALTR
March 29, 2019 21:48 - 37 minutes - 51.9 MBDavid Sikora, a software industry veteran and former executive chairman at Stratfor, a global research, and intelligence platform, is the CEO of ALTR. Sikora is noted for executing the first internet software IPO in Texas with The ForeFront Group, and previously served in key leadership roles at Digby, Motive and Pervasive Software. ALTR launched its cybersecurity platform built with blockchain technology last June with $15 million in venture capital and after being in stealth mode for...
Adeo Ressi, CEO of Founder Institute
March 17, 2019 21:00 - 41 minutes - 38.8 MBAdeo Ressi is the CEO of the Founder Institute, a startup launch program that operates in over 200 cities worldwide. He is also a repeat entrepreneur who has sold two $1 billion companies, and he is a recognized mentor for fast-growing technology businesses. He spoke at SXSW in Austin on entrepreneurship. In this episode of Ideas to Invoices, Ressi talks about finding and pursuing your passion, traits for entrepreneurs, emerging global tech hubs and more.
Jeremy Rossmann, Founder of Make School
March 08, 2019 13:52 - 33 minutes - 45.4 MBJeremy Rossmann is the co-founder of Make School, a computer science and software engineering school, based in San Francisco. He founded Make School in 2012 with his high school friend, Ashu Desai. Rossmann dropped out of MIT and Desai dropped out of UCLA to create Make School which now offers an accredited two-year Bachelor's Degree to its students. Make School is disrupting higher education. Make School only gets paid when its students land a job after graduation making $60,000 a year or m...
Amber Gunst, CEO of the Austin Technology Council
March 07, 2019 16:29 - 52 minutes - 71.9 MBAmber Gunst is the CEO of the Austin Technology Council. She took over the job in January after serving as interim CEO since last May/ She is determined to help ten Austin software companies reach $1 billion in revenue and another 100 reach $100 million in revenue in the next ten years. Austin is one of the leading technology centers in the country and it’s going to continue to expand, Gunst said. And the Austin Technology Council, founded in 1992, is one of the most instrumental organiz...
Chris Shonk, managing partner of ATX Seed Ventures
February 25, 2019 18:27 - 54 minutes - 75.2 MBChris Shonk is managing partner of ATX Seed Ventures, a venture capital firm launched in Austin, Texas in 2014. The firm has already raised two funds, which are committed. It will announce shortly its third fund. In this podcast, Shonk talks frankly about what it takes to land a VC investment. If you're raising capital, it's well worth the investment of your time. In addition to being a VC, Shonk is an entrepreneur. He has co-founded an investment bank, and has operated, advised, and invest...
Mark Rolston, founder of argodesign
December 01, 2018 01:00 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBMark Rolston is the founder and chief creative at argodesign in Austin, Texas. He is a renowned designer with a 25-year career of creating for the world’s largest and most innovative companies. Before argodesign, he was the chief creative officer of frogdesign. He joined frog in 1994 and co-founded the software design group, quickly establishing it as the largest part of frog’s business and a major force in its growth. Since then, he has continued to produce groundbreaking work for Fortune...
Matt Sanchez, founder and Chief Technology Officer of CognitiveScale
October 24, 2018 21:15 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBFive years ago, Matt Sanchez founded CognitiveScale. He serves as the fast-growing AI company's Chief Technology Officer. CognitiveScale this week held Cognite2018 in downtown Austin. Sanchez sat down with Ideas to Invoices to talk about Responsible AI and the company's core products. "Sanchez serves as the principal architect and product visionary for the company’s cloud-based cognitive applications across various industries. Recently, he was the leader of IBM Watson Labs and was the first ...
John Zanni, president of Acronis
October 19, 2018 17:06 - 9 minutes - 12.4 MBJohn Zanni, President of Acronis, talks about the company's partnership with Williams Martini Racing Formula One team ahead of the Formula One race weekend at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas. Acronis, a data protection and storage company, provides data protection software to the Williams Martini Racing team including backup, disaster recovery, software storage, and file sync and share. Formula One is one of the world’s most technologically advanced sports. Every Grand Pr...
Cristal Glangchai, founder of VentureLab and author of Venture Girls
October 19, 2018 04:46 - 16 minutes - 23.7 MBCristal Glangchai, PhD, was the Founding Director of the Blackstone LaunchPad and the Director of the Texas Entrepreneurship Exchange at the University of Texas in Austin. She's also the Founder and CEO of VentureLab, a non-profit that runs experiential learning programs in youth tech entrepreneurship. And she is the author of the bestselling book: Venture Girls.
Eric Bear, founder of MONKEYMedia
September 26, 2018 02:55 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBEric Bear is the founder and CEO of Austin’s MONKEYMedia, an award-winning, independent R&D lab. Its patent portfolio includes in-house inventions that date back to 1992 and are incorporated in more than 184 million movies distributed on DVD & Blu-ray. Bear has over 30 years experience crafting and establishing user experience strategies for major corporations and is the first-named inventor on over 100 software and hardware patents and patent applications. Products based on his inventions...
Doreen Lorenzo, founder of the Center for Integrated Design
September 17, 2018 03:58 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBDoreen Lorenzo is the founder of the Center for Integrated Design and the Assistant Dean of the School of Design and Creative Technology at the University of Texas at Austin. Lorenzo is a co-founder of mobile video insights firm Vidlet. She also previously served as president of Quirky and frog.
Cesare Fracassi, UT Austin's Director of Blockchain Initiative
August 15, 2018 04:35 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBCesare Fracassi is a Univerity of Texas McCombs School of Business associate professor of finance and he's the director of the newly formed Blockchain Initiative. On this podcast, Fracassi discusses blockchain technology and UT's new program. The Blockchain Initiative at Texas McCombs is focused on providing support to faculty to do research on blockchain technology, Fracassi said. It also provides students with opportunities to learn more about blockchain technology, he said. And it’...
Salen Churi and Brian Tochman, general parnters of Trust Ventures
June 20, 2018 17:06 - 26 minutes - 36.4 MBTrust Ventures, an Austin-based venture capital firm has raised an initial $35 million fund, backed by Koch Disruptive Technologies, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, to invest in and support “innovative startups facing public policy barriers. Salen Churi and Brian Tochman lead Trust Ventures. Previously, Churi worked as a law professor and founded the Innovation Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School. He also practiced law at Kirkland & Ellis and Sidley Austin. Tochman was the ...
Morgan Flager, general partner of Silverton Partners
June 18, 2018 17:50 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBMorgan Flager, general partner of Silverton Partners, one of Austin's oldest home-grown VC firms, is an active investor in early-stage technology startups in Austin. He currently serves on the boards of Aceable, Alert Media, Convey, Outbound Engine, Trendkite, The Zebra, Turnkey Vacation Rentals, SourceDay, and Rollick. Before joining Silverton, Flager worked with FTC Capital in San Francisco and in corporate development for Ingrian Networks and as a product manager at Kintana. He grew up...
Lorenzo Gomez III, Author of the Cilantro Diaries and Tech Entrepreneur
June 14, 2018 23:49 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBLorenzo Gomez, III is the author of the Cilantro Diaries, business lessons from the most unlikely places. He also serves as a Director at Geekdom and the 80/20 Foundation, a philanthropic organization, and co-founder of Tech Bloc, and he serves as board member, advisory board member and mentor for a variety of local and national tech and entrepreneurial organizations. He has also worked at two startups, Rackspace and CityVoice.
Jean Belanger, Co-Founder and CEO of Cerebri Ai
May 22, 2018 20:30 - 48 minutes - 66.4 MBJean Belanger is co-founder & CEO of Cerebri Ai which helps Fortune 500 companies find their customers’ voice. Jean has helped three software companies get started, the first being Metrowerks, went public on NASDAQ and was later sold to Motorola. Next came Reddwerks, a pioneer in the Internet of Things providing solutions to major retailers including Walmart, CVS, and Best Buy. And finally, Cerebri Ai in 2016. Jean holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics.
Jose Ancer, partner at Egan Nelson
May 19, 2018 03:43 - 23 minutes - 31.9 MBJose Ancer is a tech and venture capital focused corporate partner in the Startup and Emerging Technology Group of Egan Nelson and the firm’s Chief Technology Officer. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and his Law Degree from Harvard. He represents early-stage companies across a variety of tech-focused industries and in multiple cities. Ancer is also the author of the hugely popular Silicon Hills Lawyer blog. He writes blog posts on core startup law and financ...
Bob Fabbio, serial entrepreneur, founder of eRelevance Corp.
May 05, 2018 06:05 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBIn 1989, Bob Fabbio quit his job at IBM and launched Tivoli Systems in Austin with no money. The company created one of the largest software categories in the world – Enterprise Systems Management. The company went public in 1995. And IBM acquired it in 1996 for $743 million. Fabbio also founded electronic document delivery startup Dazel which Hewlett-Packard bought in 1999 for $180 million. Today, Fabbio is on his eighth startup and tenth CEO job. In 2013, Fabbio founded eRelevance Corp.,...
Scott Willis, founder of Tequila 512
April 23, 2018 19:21 - 29 minutes - 26.8 MBScott Willis is a pioneer in the Austin tequila industry. He is the president and founder of Tequila 512, Austin's first tequila brand. And in this podcast, Willis talks about his entrepreneurial journey, which wasn't an easy one from quitting his day job and going all in on his tequila venture. He created an award-winning tequila that costs less than $30 a bottle. But before that, he had to travel to Mexico and learn everything about the tequila industry. In Jalisco, Willis found Luis...
Sarah Koch, VP of Social Innovation at the Case Foundation at SXSW
April 02, 2018 16:53 - 17 minutes - 24 MBAt SXSW Interactive 2018, Sarah Koch, vice president of social innovation at the Case Foundation, talks about the organization's participation in the conference, the focus on diversity and inclusion and its Faces of Founders and Be Fearless campaigns.
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr
March 08, 2018 22:29 - 18 minutes - 26.1 MBFCC Commissioner Brendan Carr is in Austin for South by Southwest and to talk about his plan to ensure that U.S. infrastructure policy is 5G ready. 5G is the next generation of broadband Internet and it promises to bring all kinds of advancements in technology including applications for the Internet of Things, autonomous cars, telemedicine and more. In this special edition of the Ideas to Invoices podcast, Carr discusses why it's important for the U.S. to be a leader in adopting and de...
Gabe Wilcox, CEO and Co-Founder of MineralSoft
March 08, 2018 17:42 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBGabe Wilcox, CEO and Co-Founder of MineralSoft, based in Austin, a software platform that allows mineral rights holders to manage and analyze their portfolios in real time, talks about operating a startup in Austin, Texas. MineralSoft announced in February that the company raised $4 million in funding. The company has 20 employees and expects to double in size this year. MineralSoft recently entered into a joint venture with oil and gas data analytics company Drillinginfo, another Austin-b...
Ryan Wuerch, founder of DOSH
February 23, 2018 20:27 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBRyan Wuerch is the founder and CEO of DOSH, an app that gives consumers cash back for purchases. Dosh is quickly growing from 10 people a year ago to more than 100 by the end of the year. And already, millions of consumers have downloaded the app, which has given back more than $19 million in cash to consumers since launching in beta mode last fall. Wuerch is a serial entrepreneur. Before Dosh, he launched Solavei, which was acquired in late 2015. He also founded Motricity and spent a d...
Alamo Reality's Michael McGar and Chipp Walters
February 22, 2018 05:23 - 44 minutes - 61 MBMichael McGar and Chipp Walters are leading a team to create an Augmented Reality app for the Alamo. Imagine Virtua, an Austin-based company, formed to create the Alamo Reality project to bring the Alamo battle to life using Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality applications. McGar and Walters, both serial entrepreneurs, say it's not the technology, but the storytelling and content that is key to providing an authentic experience for viewers. The app is set to be released next month ...
Hugh Forrest, Chief Programming Officer of SXSW
February 01, 2018 22:19 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MBHugh Forrest is the chief programming officer of South by Southwest that takes place every March in Austin. SXSW Conference & Festivals is a ten-day-long convergence of tech, movies and music now entering its 32nd year. SXSW Interactive has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s most influential tech events. It’s been called Spring Break for Geeks among other nicknames. An Austin native, Forrest graduated from Austin High School and majored in English at Kenyon Colleg...
Robyn Metcalfe, founder Food+City
December 03, 2017 00:20 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MBRobyn Metcalfe is the founder and director of Food+City at the University of Texas at Austin. Food+City i a platform for telling stories that inspire innovation in the food system. Dr. Metcalfe is a food historian at the University of Texas at Austin, founder and visiting research scholar and lecturer in the College of Natural Sciences. Metcalfe has written for and produced Sunset Magazine, authored two non-fiction books, served as a visiting research scholar at Boston University and f...
Mike Millard, managing director of Mass Challenge Texas
November 22, 2017 16:10 - 22 minutes - 31.3 MBMike Millard is the managing director of MassChallenge Texas, a nonprofit startup-friendly accelerator. In this podcast, Millard talks about the inaugural MassChallenge Texas program. The first cohort of 100 companies launches early next year. The deadline to apply to MassChallenge Texas is Dec. 5th. In this podcast, Millard gives the code MCTXIronMike to save 100 percent on the application fee. The accelerator doesn't take any equity and at the end, it gives away $500,000 in cash awards....
Rob Hirschfeld, Founder and CEO of RackN
November 18, 2017 19:06 - 28 minutes - 39.2 MBRob Hirschfeld is the founder and CEO at RackN, an Austin-based startup which makes software to automate data centers and managing servers well. Hirschfeld has 15 years of experience in the cloud and infrastructure industry. He has served four terms on the OpenStack Foundation Board and previously worked as an executive at Dell. He’s also a serial entrepreneur. Hirschfeld founded RackN in October of 2014, the company has received some angel investment, earns money and is currently raisin...
Jan Ryan, Serial Entrepreneur and Director of Creative Entrepreneurship at UT COFA
November 04, 2017 21:12 - 28 minutes - 38.5 MBJan Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, software tech executive, and investor. She has spent 38 years building expansion stage companies, resulting in four acquisitions and one IPO. She is a mentor, advisor and angel investor in several Austin startups. She is also a partner at Capital Factory, an Austin-based accelerator, as well as Techstars. Recently, Ryan joined the University of Texas at Austin in the newly created position of Director of Creative Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the ...
Will Mitchell, co-founder of Contract Simply
October 27, 2017 04:36 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBIn this episode of Ideas to Invoices, Will Mitchell, co-founder of Contract Simply, discusses how his startup pivoted from a consumer marketplace called Renovate Simply to a business to business enterprise software company for the construction and banking industry. The co-founders of Contract Simply spent last summer in Mountain View, California in the Y-Combinator program. Mitchell and his co-founder, Andrew Latimer, moved to California, rented an apartment and furniture and spent three m...
Stephanie Breedlove, Co-founder of Care.com Homepay
October 06, 2017 17:58 - 39 minutes - 53.7 MBStephanie Breedlove founded Breedlove & Associates in 1992. She built the nanny payroll company into a multi-million-dollar business with more than 10,000 active clients. In 2012, Care.com acquired her company for $55 million and it became Care.com Homepay, according to an article in Forbes. Today, Breedlove is an angel investor with the Central Texas Angel Network and an author of "All In: How Women Entrepreneurs Can Think Bigger, Build Sustainable Businesses, and Change the World," p...
Adam Salamon, Entrepreneur in Residence at Next Coast Ventures
September 30, 2017 03:37 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBAdam Salamon is the first Entrepreneur in Residence at Next Coast Ventures, an Austin-based venture capital firm. Salamon most recently served as co-founder and chief operating officer of Perk Inc., a rewards and engagement platform that went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange. RhythmOne PLC acquired Perk earlier this year. RhythmOne PLC acquired Perk earlier this year for more than $40 million in a stock deal. In this episode of Ideas to Invoices, Salamon talks about how Perk initi...
Andrea Kalmans, principal, Lontra Ventures
September 15, 2017 21:38 - 30 minutes - 42.1 MBThis episode of Ideas to Invoices features Andrea Kalmans, a principal of Lontra Ventures. is an angel investor, She is an angel investor, mentor and technology advocate in Austin. She has worked as an executive with Dell and Salomon Smith Barney in its media investment bank in New York City. She earned her MBA from UT Austin and she has degrees in finance and economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. At Lontra Ventures, Kalmans focuses on the firm's technology portfolio w...
Chris Saum and Teresa Evans, partners of the RealCo Seed Fund Program
September 08, 2017 17:08 - 26 minutes - 36.5 MBChris Saum and Teresa Evans are partners in the RealCo Seed Fund Program, based at Geekdom in San Antonio. They oversee the admissions, mentoring, training and fundraising process for business to business technology startups in the portfolio. The program accepts startups on a rolling basis through applications on its website and other sites. Saum also regularly travels to recruit new startups. The 15-month long program focuses on providing networking, capital, mentors and other resource...
Krishna Srinivasan, General Partner with LiveOak Venture Partners and TeleStax's Co-founder and CEO Ivelin Ivanov
September 01, 2017 21:13 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MBIdeas to Invoices features a discussion with Krishna Srinivasan, general partner with LiveOak Venture Partners and Ivelin Ivanov, Co-founder and CEO of Telestax, one of the firm’s portfolio companies. Srinivasan is a co-founder of LiveOak Venture Partners and has been investing in early stage Texas-based companies and entrepreneurs since 2000. Prior to founding LiveOak, Krishna was a Partner at Austin Ventures. Before joining Austin Ventures, Krishna was with Motorola where he wrote larg...
Chris Burney, executive director of San Antonio Angel Network
August 31, 2017 05:34 - 26 minutes - 37 MBChris Burney is the executive director of the San Antonio Angel Network, founded in 2016. Previously, he was a manager and senior financial analyst for Rackspace, the San Antonio-based Web hosting company. He also worked as an analyst for Thomson Reuters, J.P. Morgan and as a summer associate for Sterling Stamos, a private equity group. Burney received his MBA from the University of North Carolina and his Bachelor's degree from Duke University. He also grew up in San Antonio and grad...
Ben Dyer, serial entrepreneur, founder of Peachtree Software
August 23, 2017 16:01 - 33 minutes - 46.6 MBBen Dyer is a well-known entrepreneur in Atlanta and Austin who founded Peachtree Software in 1978. He ran that company until 1981 when it sold to Altanta-based Management Science America, shortly before the debut of the IBM PC. Peachtree Software was one of the original software programs to run on the IBM PC. Dyer then launched Comsell, an interactive media company, which he sold to Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Next, he founded Intellimedia, which created CD-ROMs focused on sports edu...
Chris Treadaway, Founder of Polygraph Media
August 08, 2017 18:32 - 36 minutes - 49.6 MBChris Treadaway founded Polygraph Media in 2011. The company, based at WeWork at the Domain in Austin, has 10 employees and it focuses on Facebook advertising for large customers like McDonalds and Cheddars. Previously, Chris worked as group product manager of Web strategy at Microsoft. And he was a founder of Startfor, a global intelligence firm, based in Austin. In this interview, Chris talks about how Polygraph Media has created Internet advertising technology that drives traffic an...
Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp, general partners of True Wealth Ventures
July 28, 2017 06:42 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBSara Brand and Kerry Rupp, are general partners of True Wealth Ventures, a $20 million venture capital fund based in Austin and focused on investing in women led companies in the sustainable consumer and consumer health industries.
John Price, CEO of Vast
July 21, 2017 00:00 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBJohn Price is the CEO of Vast.com, and before that he worked as a marketing executive at Between Markets, which sold to Inovis. He is also a Trilogoy alumni and spent 11 years as vice president of marketing and business development there. He was critical to the company’s growth from $0 to $250 million in revenue. Previously, John was a director of technical marketing at Neuron Data and an AI associate at Shell Oil. John holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Aus...
MIchael Girdley, entrepreneur and managing director of the Geekdom Fund
July 06, 2017 02:20 - 32 minutes - 45 MBMichael Girdley is an entrepreneur and investor from San Antonio. He also worked as a programmer in Silicon Valley and he earned a computer science degree with honors from Lafayette College. He is also the author of several books on Java programming with a focus on web applications Michael served as the CEO of his family business Alamo Fireworks, he is also the Chairman of Codeup, a coding bootcamp company he cofounded. And Michael is a venture capitalist and the managing director of t...
Clinton Phillips, founder of Medici
June 22, 2017 04:38 - 34 minutes - 47.8 MBA Native of South Africa, Clinton Phillips, is a serial entrepreneur. He recently founded Medici, a HIPAA-complaint telemedicine app, in Austin and raised more than $24 million in venture capital funding. Previously, he founded and ran Aspen-based Aspen Back & Body, physical rehab clinic, that he sold to Laser Spine Institute. And Phillips founded another medical advice company called 2nd.MD in 2011 in Houston. Phillips is also a former chiropractor, sports therapist, and ru...
John Berkowitz, Co-Founder Yodle, Co-Founder OJO Labs
June 08, 2017 21:00 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBJohn Berkowitz is CEO & Co-Founder of OJO Labs in Austin. Before launching OJO, John founded Yodle, a provider of local online advertising and marketing services, in 2005 with his childhood friends Ben Rubenstein and Nathaniel Stevens. They grew it to a large company with more than 1,500 employees and $200 million in revenue. In 2016, Web.com bought Yodle for $342 million. At Yodle, John served many roles including launching and managing the 50m enterprise division of Yodle and m...
Chris Taylor, Founder of Square Root
June 01, 2017 15:49 - 22 minutes - 30.9 MBChris Taylor is one of Austin’s most successful bootstrapped entrepreneurs. He founded Square Root, which ranked number two on Fortune Magazine’s list from Great Place to Work of the 25 Best Small Workplaces in the country. Square Root makes store relationship management software for Nissan and other customers. Its software helps automotive sales managers run their dealerships. And the company has recently entered other markets in the retail industry. Before launching Square Root in 2006...
Ben Rubenstein, Co-Founder and CEO of Opcity and Co-Founder of Yodle
May 25, 2017 00:57 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBBen Rubenstein is the co-founder and CEO of Opcity in Austin. The fast growing startup has created a data and analytics driven technology platform for real estate agents and brokers. It recently announced it has raised $27 million in funding, the largest Series A round in Austin this year and one of the largest ever. Rubenstein previously co-founded and served as vice president of sales operations at Yodle in 2005 and grew it to a large company with more than 1,500 employees and $200 mil...