Founders Uncut: Real Startup Stories
13. Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach - Coming Back from Near Death Company Experiences, Is the Planet You are On Inhabitable? Learning to Rely on Your Own Judgement, Things that are Worthwhile to Do are Hard
Published: 22 August 2022 at 06:14 Europe/London
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Episode notes
With me today is Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach and bestselling author. Bloomreach has over $100M in ARR, powers $400BN of ecommerce sales and has raised over $400M. But these are just the headlines. Listen to the real story on Founders Uncut. In this episode, you will hear more from him on:
Near Death Experiences
- When 25M ARR Just Isn’t enough
- Telling Investors This Could Be a Zero
- Realising what may be a False Dream
- Culture is Tested In the Hard Times
- Making Tough Decisions Early
Coming Back from Near Death
- From $25M ARR back to $1M to over $100M in 6 years
- Is the Planet you are Inhabiting Repairable or Uninhabitable
- Finding another Planet while keeping Employees & Investors with You
- Growing for 5 years without Raising - Revenue Based Growth
- Hero to Zero and Zero to Hero overnight
The Founder Mindset
- Why you have to be 100% in as the Leader
- The Question you are not Allowed to Ask Yourself
- Defining Himself as a Founder
- Why You Don’t Want investors to have all their Eggs in your Basket
- Relying on Yourself - In the End it’s Your Judgement
- Building Early Investor Relationships
- Probability of Value Destroyer VC versus Value Add
- The Best Part of Being a Founder - There is Nothing You Can’t Do
- The Process of Writing a Book
- Things that are Worthwhile are Really Hard
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