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

Founders Uncut: Real Startup Stories

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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