Subbu Rama

Co-founder and CEO, BalkanID · 1 appearance on the record.

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Subbu Rama is a tech entrepreneur who co-founded and served as CEO of Bitfusion, an AI hardware virtualization startup acquired by VMware in 2019. He later co-founded BalkanID, an AI-driven intelligent access governance and identity security platform.

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The record, in short

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Rama: Bitfusion could match VMware's scale if executed correctly

“We think this could be as big as VMware, if we executed right in the next few years.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 13:47 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Insight

Rama: Equal co-founder equity splits prevent long-term resentment

“No, we actually did that actually, because, you know, if you think about it, right, that, I think that's the right way to do it. The reason is, ah, you don't want one person to feel that, you know, ah, that person's putting more work, but like getting less equ…”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 5:22 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Disclosure

Rama: Bitfusion co-founders skipped vesting schedules before raising capital

“Actually, in fact, when we initially signed the founders' agreement before we raised equity, ah, we didn't have an investing schedule.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 6:58 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rama: Hardware and infrastructure engineers generally earn $250K annually

“Everybody in our industry basically, you know, generally makes about close to a quarter million dollars a year.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 3:52 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Disclosure

Rama: Bitfusion raised its seed round using free YC SAFE templates

“We just went online, downloaded what Paul Graham had, printed it, didn't, you know, didn't have to spend any big money on lawyers.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 8:25 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rama: Bitfusion secured Shell and five other customers within three months

“Since we've released our product in just, like, you know, ah, three months, we basically have about half a dozen customers. Ah, customers range from, you know, ah, cloud service providers, ah, all the way up to, like, oil and gas companies like Shell.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 9:12 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Rama: Bitfusion burns less than $100K in cash per month

“Less than a hundred K. Our budget is less than a hundred K.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 11:19 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Disclosure

Rama: Bitfusion raised approximately $1.5M in April 2015

“We raised about 1.5 million dollars, you know we actually raised last year around, you know, end of April is when we raised.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 7:29 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Disclosure

Rama: Bitfusion closed its $1.5M seed round in just two weeks

“We basically opened our round around the first week of April. We were done in two weeks.”

Subbu Rama Jun 13, 2016 ▶ 7:46 Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Rama

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
Shocked Subbu Wouldn't Accept my $10M Offer after Raising $1M This Year, EP 282: Subbu Ram	Jun 13, 2016	8m

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