SlidesUp shut down in early 2020 before enterprise interest spurred a reboot
Kunal Bhatia · Can SlidesUp Actually Threaten CVent, Bizzabo? · Jun 22, 2020 · at 5:04
Kunal Bhatia, co-founder of event software SlidesUp, explains the company's operational timeline and how enterprise inbound requests revived the startup after shutting down.
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“We actually shut down in the middle officially earlier this year, but you know, a couple months ago, we got some people knocking on our doors to run enterprise contracts the enterprise pilots that we ran.”
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