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George Vandarian

Founder & General Partner, Untapped Ventures · 1 appearance on the record.

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George Bandarian is an early-stage venture investor backing AI-native startups and autonomous systems through his venture fund, Untapped Ventures, while hosting the Agentic podcast. He previously spent over a decade as President and CEO of AMI Paperless, an enterprise document digitization company founded by his father, which he scaled and sold in 2018.

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1 prediction · 2 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 disclosures · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how George argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Bandarian: Amipaperless reached just over $2M in annual revenue
“We made the Inc. 5000 fastest growing. We just ended a little bit north of two million.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 8:34 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian

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We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of George Vandarian on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything George Vandarian said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Bandarian: Acquired enterprise software from IBM, Oracle, and EMC is bloated and fails
“You know, some of the ones are the ones that, for example, IBM and Oracle, and EMC, and all the big behemoths have app acquired and they just become so bloated and expensive, and implementations fail”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 9:26 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
What-if
Bandarian: President Obama's Mars commitment would not have happened without Elon Musk
“You would never think that a president would say that, and the president wouldn't have said that if it wasn't for Elon.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 15:16 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Bandarian: Amipaperless digitized SpaceX's accounting department
“So SpaceX As a typical client, they want to go paperless, they had an initial. So with their accounting department, and so we took care of that need for them.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 2:56 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Assertion Supported
Bandarian: Amipaperless reached just over $2M in annual revenue
“We made the Inc. 5000 fastest growing. We just ended a little bit north of two million.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 8:34 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bandarian projects Amipaperless will reach $2.5M in revenue for 2016
“We're on a pretty good clip. We'll end that somewhere around two and a half million.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 8:44 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Disclosure
Bandarian: Amipaperless has been profitable for decades without outside financing
“And I thought you were talking about the startup, but as far as our business, yeah, I mean, we've been profitable, geez, for decades. Never had to raise financing, but”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 11:02 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Disclosure
Bandarian: AMI Paperless secured a $367,000 government contract in 2016
“Recently we had a win with a government entity. Which was a full service solution. And that was a 367,000 dollar win earlier this year.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 4:58 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Disclosure
Bandarian: AMI Paperless contract sweet spot is around $100,000
“The sweet spot's probably right around the 100,000 you know, for a mid-level enterprise customer that has a real challenge, they want to solve it.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 5:19 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Disclosure
Bandarian: AMI Paperless actively works with about 100 clients
“At any one given time, we're generally working with about a hundred clients.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 5:37 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian
Disclosure
Bandarian: Amipaperless will scale from 25 to 40 employees by year-end
“We have about 25 employees, and we had a great end of quarter. We're scaling up again, so we should be at 40 by the end of the year.”
George Vandarian Oct 26, 2016 ▶ 5:51 EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandarian

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
EP 459: Magically Make Paper Dissappear with $2m/yr Company Amipaperless CEO George Bandar Oct 26, 2016 10m
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