Chaudhry: ComnPlus is bootstrapped with a five-person team
Karan Chaudhry · EP 471: He Just Exited, Now Landds $500k Customer for New Content AI Business ComnPlus with CEO Karan Chaudhry · Nov 7, 2016 · at 9:13
Karan Chaudhry, CEO of AI content platform ComnPlus, discusses the company's early funding structure and team size with Nathan Latka.
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“Our company right now is bootstrap because like I said, we are only three, four months old. We are a team of five people.”
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