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8 Years Without Funding to $100M Raise & Now A Category Leader | Shivku Ganesan ,Exotel
- ▶ 0:25 Shivakumar Ganesan So we are a MVNO, mobile virtual network operator. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 0:58 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And now I want to start, you know, by, if you can give a recap of what Exortal is, what category you play into our audience, and then we can maybe dive into the journey after COVID of Exortal first. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:55 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, exotic started roughly, you know, in 2011, 20 12 kind of timeframe. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:34 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And how much, if you can share roughly revenue, did it add to Exortal after the M&A? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 17:07 Shivakumar Ganesan What I didn't anticipate was that the ExoTel business also actually went through the same S-curve while, while we were doing all of this. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:17 Shivakumar Ganesan It's a very exciting situation because contacts and receipts are declining, but actually Exodus prospects become even brighter going forward.
- ▶ 35:10 Shivakumar Ganesan When I started the company, I said, Hey, I want to serve the Indian market. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:54 Shivakumar Ganesan Um, um, you know, I think that that time will come for Exotel also. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, you also, you know, during our conversations mentioned that, you know, today almost 80% of the exotic revenue comes through enterprise and 20% through SMB. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:22 Shivakumar Ganesan Like I could have started Exotel five years later, or could I have, uh, sold the company when we were growing 40, 50% year on year, and could I have now started something else? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:11 Shivakumar Ganesan So, so the, and today I assume exotic would serve like a hundred of them at least more, um, I think we have a total of about, uh, 200 ish odd enterprise customers now. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:00:45 Siddhartha Ahluwalia This conversation has been what happened in Exotl post COVID and, and some of the key lessons in scaling, uh, that, that you learned over a period of time as an entrepreneur.
7 Myths About Selling B2B SaaS In India ft Unicommerce Founder Kapil Makhija
- ▶ 31:35 unnamed speaker I know many examples like Exotel, Davenbox, Yellow, they are able to build or get large customer contracts in India, spot draft as you were talking about.
Before Applying For A Venture Capital Job, Watch This Podcast! I Blume Ventures Partner I Neon Show
- ▶ 1:03:52 Ashish Fafaria And then there is an Exotel. 2 times in the scene
Exotel’s Shivku on Failed Funding Round to Building $60 Mn ARR Saas Startup
- ▶ 3:31 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Welcome Shivku, Shiv Kumar Ganeshan, founder, Exortal, to the Hundred X Entrepreneur podcast.
- ▶ 3:47 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Shivku, before we begin, right, would learn to learn about your background before Exortal, where were you born, your family, your parents, right?
- ▶ 6:40 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And what made you start Exortal? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:24 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, uh, 2000 and, uh, 11 is when you started working on Exotl? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:59 Shivakumar Ganesan When I went to them with Exotel, they actually said, hey, this looks like a good idea, I'll come and join.
- ▶ 22:09 Shivakumar Ganesan So, ultimately, it looked, at that point in time, it didn't, but now we know that Exotol has actually played a pivotal role, uh, within the backbone of the evolution of the startup ecosystem in the country, because,
- ▶ 26:05 Shivakumar Ganesan And, uh, I would argue that, uh, Exotel is also actually a B to C internet story. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:12 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Uh, you know, VCs kept on dismissing the company, right? 14 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:05 Shivakumar Ganesan You know, in another parallel universe, I would have said, uh, the company has been hammered five times and it was actually, so the first time was COVID. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:32 Shivakumar Ganesan He also told me once that, uh, with me, uh, what he really liked was what he saw is what he got, and so these were some of the reasons why I think, uh, he chose to back, uh, Exotel. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:38 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And, and, uh, tell us about, you know, uh, the capabilities Exotel has right now, because it's far more superior, far more diverse than what you thought that you could build. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:53 Siddhartha Ahluwalia It's been a fantastic conversation, walking the last 10 years of yours and Exorter's journey.
100xEntrepreneur | Episode 14 | Karthik Reddy, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blume Ventures
- ▶ 40:28 Karthik Reddy Exotel has passed the ten million dollar mark.