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Gary Guseinov

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
189 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

It's actually business-hangouts.com.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

We lost a hyphen sometime along the way here.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

So yeah, no problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Business Hangouts is a web conferencing and webinar platform, very similar to Zoom, WebEx, and GoToMeeting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

What makes us different is that we're specifically designed for Google Apps.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

So if you're a Google user, you have Google Sites, if you're using Gmail, Google Calendar, and you're looking for a webinar, web conferencing solution that's better, faster, easier to use than WebEx or GoToMeeting, you need to come to us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

So one of the companies was U.S.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Tech Support.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

This is a company that I started in 2003.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

I raised close to $70 million, close to $100 million actually for this company.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

This was from 2003 to 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

Got it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

What happened to that company?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

So the company was private from 2003 to 2007.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

In late 2007, September, we took the company public.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

It's been public on NASDAQ till 2012.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And in 2012, it got bought out by a big direct marketing company here in Los Angeles.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 495: WebEx Killer +$5M In Revenue, 1.7M Users For Better Online Meetings with BusinessHangouts CEO Gary Guseinov

And it's since then been private.

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