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Vijay Tella

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
209 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

Yes, that's a really good question.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

So, you know, yeah, as you mentioned, our background in this space goes back a long time, you know, I, you know, we invented the integration software,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

at this company called Technicron and then, which became Tipco, which became Public and then we started the middleware group, middleware product line at Oracle.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

But, uh, you know, in between, you know, I was the CEO of a consumer video company called Quake.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

It was a mobile video application that drew to 20 million users and it got acquired by Skype in 2011.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

Uh, well, no, they didn't shut us off but we were the first people that, uh,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

you know, that basically, you know, like launched with the Facebook mobile SDK.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

You know, it was actually Facebook, the Apple App Store.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

We were the top paid Apple app in the Apple App Store for many months.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

So we were, you know, we had and we were preloaded by, you know, carriers like, you know, Verizon, Sprint and Quick and Docomo onto like millions of phones, Samsung and Nokia and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

So they all preloaded us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

So we had growth coming in through social media companies, carriers, as well as handset makers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

They paid $150 million for us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

Okay, $150.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

We had raised $15.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

Not really.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

I mean, it was the third one for me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

That's correct.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1089 Workato CEO: "We're Enterprise Version" of Zapier, Segment, Elastoic

Yeah, no, that's a really good question.