1064 AirPR Says "Growing Fast" but won't share revenue #'s, are they?

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Nathan Latka

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🗓️ 23 June 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Sharam Fouladgar-Mercer is the Co-founder and CEO of AirPR, a technology solution to measure the impact of PR. He was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Shasta Ventures focused on consumer internet and the social graph. Prior to joining Shasta, Sharam was a Senior Associate at Sierra Ventures focused on consumer internet, enterprise software (cloud computing / virtualization), and mobile. He served on the Board at Makara (sold to RedHat) and TouchCommerce (sold to Nuance). Sharam began his career as a technologist at Appian, a BPM software startup where he managed the first enterprise-wide tracking system for the Department of Homeland Security. Sharam has lectured at universities, events and conferences, and judged business plan competitions at Princeton, Harvard, Stanford, and Syracuse. He is also an advisor and mentor to eLab (Princeton University's Accelerator), Dorm Room Fund (First Round Capital's Accelerator), and Acceleprise (Enterprise Technology Accelerator). Sharam graduated with honors with a BS in Computer Science from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He played NCAA D 1 ice hockey and is fluent in Farsi. Follow him on twitter @sharamfm.

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0:00.0	This is the top entrepreneurs podcast where founders share how they started their companies and got
0:06.9	filthy rich or crash and burn. Each episode features revenue numbers, customer counts, and other
0:16.1	insider information that creates business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million.
0:23.6	I had no money when I started the company.
0:25.6	It was a hundred and sixty million dollars which is the size of any IPOs.
0:29.6	We're a bit strapped.
0:30.6	We have like 22,000 customers.
0:33.6	With over five million downloads in a very short amount of time, major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes.
0:43.6	I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode.
0:48.7	Hello, everyone. My guest today is Sherim Fladger Mercer. He's the CEO and founder of a company called AirPR,
0:55.3	technology solution to measure the impact of PR.
0:58.0	He was an EIR at Shasta Ventures,
1:00.7	focused on consumer internet and the social graph.
1:03.0	Before joining, Sharam was a senior associate at Sierra Ventures,
1:06.3	focused on consumer internet, enterprise software,
1:08.7	like cloud computing and virtualization, and mobile.
1:11.5	He served on the board as Macara, which sold to Red Hat and Touch Commerce, which sold
1:15.5	to nuance. All right, Sharma, are you ready to take us to the top? Oh, let's rock. All right,
1:19.8	you've been about around the block a few times. What do you like more, the VC stuff or doing
1:23.7	your own thing? Both have their interesting parts. It just kind of depends on which stage your life, you, uh, your own thing? Both have their interesting parts.
1:29.0	It just kind of depends
1:29.7	in which stage your life you're at.
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