Nathan Latka
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Hey folks, my guest today is Ben Kieran.
His focus has been to build a successful company with a thriving culture that improves lives of businesses.
Avantika's customers, if you haven't heard of Avantika before, they're really building software focused on HOAs, really hard market to sell into.
We're going to jump into it today.
Ben, you ready to take us to the top?
All right.
So give us context first.
JMI is involved in this business as a private equity player.
Are you the original founder or you were placed in by P.E.
?
And what year was that?
Were you like the engineering lead and he was the industry guy?
Or what was the relationship?
Wait, Ben, you have to connect these dots.
How does a nuclear engineer end up running a HOA software company?
Interesting.
Interesting.
This makes tons of sense.
Okay.
So he was in the industry running a management company, had so much pain.