106: The Journey to 3D Map the World | Amir Rubin of Paracosm | WHOA GNV Podcast

Amir Rubin, Gainesville entrepreneur and founder of Paracosm has an incredible story. He is a visionary that is not afraid of setting things into motion in order to make dreams a reality. Mike and I were absolutely captivated by this awesome story. Hear how one startup led to the next and has sent him on a journey to 3D map the world!  



4:50 - Amir's Story.

9:32 - Discussing Gainesville in the early 2000s

14:55 - How much of your own money did you invest in your idea? (Amir continues into a discussion about raising money for his business).

22:00 - Discussion about the shift from investors wanting to see profitability over just revenue.

24:15 - Was it that easy to get millions of dollars in investment?

25:56 - Were you familiar with the art of pitching at that time?

31:00 - Tell us about when the acquisition with Occipital happened.

40:13 - What does your product cost?

41:11 - Have the original investors received a return on this investment when this merger happened?

42:03 - How many people are on the team?

43:23 - When you have investors keying in on wanting you to be profitable and you are pioneering a new-to-market technology, how do you even set a price for what you are selling?

46:50 - What kind of team do you have to build up around you?

50:00 - So throwing it back to your first company... Was the problem that you didn't build out a sales team?

51:43 - Did you build a sales team around these pods or are YOU the sales team?

56:00 - Do you see this as being a tool for a walk through history (being able to see what it was before today) in addition to the 3D mapping?

59:30 - Pulling that $200,000 from your savings to start this... Did you think that you'd be right here today when you did that?

1:00:10 - You had COVID-19, we are going to dive into that on the Side Hustle (click)

1:00:30 - Where can our audience connect with you?  



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