YML

“I think the outcome would have been, probably the personal outcome would have been worse for not just me, but also the people at YML.”

“Some of the clients have stayed with us over six, seven, eight years, and each account was worth maybe over seventy million dollars, you know, sometimes over a seven, eight, nine year period.”

“That is a significant, because if you look at those six, seven years, you know, if I accumulate the whole six, seven years, I think our cash flow was close to eighty million dollars.”

“Once we launched all these apps, it never did well. In the long run, it became, it made us famous. So, you know, we were on wall street journal, CNN, CNBC. We got a lot of fame, but I knew the reality. The business was very poor.”

“So our growth from 2016 to 23 was, I think, seven times, seven to eight times. I think if I look at the growth over the last 10 years before I sold, we grew at like 59% as an average annual rate of growth.”

“When founders are not financially secure, and let's say they put in five, six years in the company. They became, they become so fearful as this is a hundred percent of what they own. Yeah. This is a hundred percent of what they own. They cannot let it go becau…”

“I think two, 15, 16, we were close to ten million in revenue.”

“You started from Kolkata, lived in a fifteen-member home with one washroom, and now you build a company and sold it for three fifty million dollars. It had like twenty-five million EBITDA at its peak.”

“Like, I think he generated close to six offers in like two to three weeks.”

“Actually Apple became a client too, you know, after a few years. So we were working with Apple on some, you know, healthcare initiatives and this was like working with their team, healthcare institutes, and we were the iOS expert.”

“You know, I think like Sumit and I, we were the, probably one of the cheapest employees in the company, even after running it for like seven years, six years.”

“And Sumit and I discussed like, how about we Actually pivot to make other companies mobile first. And that pivot, you know, made YML what YML became. That was the most successful pivot.”

“We built their first product mobile app and we were offered, and they were also very small. Those were like pre series a company. And they were like, look, Kashish, why don't you take some equity instead of”

“In fact, some of the clients have stayed with us over six, seven, eight years, and each account was worth maybe over seventy million dollars, you know, sometimes over a seven, eight, nine year period.”

“And I don't think any founder CEO can scale a company until they do this.”

“And design is such a thing, it's very hard to offshore, because it's so cultural. Just imagine if, you know, someone has not experienced Disney, and they have not experienced how healthcare system works, or they have never bought an automobile insurance in the…”