Gaurav Dhillon
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He is hell-bent on global domination.
We just broke our 100,000-unit soul mark.
Yeah, so basically, look, I built that.
I wouldn't say I, we, in particular, my co-founder and I built that up.
From our garage, we had a $75,000 SBA grant that we used and then raised venture capital to build that into a market leader in the data warehousing and ETL space.
How much total did you raise?
We raised $13.5 million.
Got it.
Those were different times.
It was the world before the internet.
And it was just a...
Wonderful time for me as a 27-year-old chief executive.
But it was a lot of working Sundays.
It was 12 odd years of working Sundays.
Took it public in 1999.
Then ran it for another five years.
A couple of busts, 1999 bust, the year 2003 bust, 9-11.
And it was 11, 12 years is a long time.
It was time to go.
And I think also fundamentally, this is getting long-winded here, but my strategy was to go build new products.