Vijay Tella
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Podcast Appearances
Yes, that's a really good question.
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,
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.
But, uh, you know, in between, you know, I was the CEO of a consumer video company called Quake.
It was a mobile video application that drew to 20 million users and it got acquired by Skype in 2011.
Uh, well, no, they didn't shut us off but we were the first people that, uh,
you know, that basically, you know, like launched with the Facebook mobile SDK.
You know, it was actually Facebook, the Apple App Store.
We were the top paid Apple app in the Apple App Store for many months.
Okay.
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
So they all preloaded us.
So we had growth coming in through social media companies, carriers, as well as handset makers.
They paid $150 million for us.
Okay, $150.
We had raised $15.
Not really.
I mean, it was the third one for me.
That's correct.
Yeah, no, that's a really good question.