1309 Are you nervous about raising on a $10m valuation with no revenue?
SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
Nathan Latka
4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Co-founder/CEO of Freshdeal, and previously Fruitspot, leading Agtech start-ups focused on the Produce Industry. He has built and led digital businesses worth +$2 billion for leading brands like P&G, Google, Nike, Coke, and Diageo.
Jose has +15 years of experience in business strategy, digital, and marketing. As Director of Strategy at Hugeinc.com, and while developing through the ranks at P&G and Booz&Co., Jose has led business worth +$2B for brands like Procter & Gamble, Google, Nike, Coke, and Diageo.
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| 0:00.0 | 15 years in corporate, then said, you know what, I'm going to do my own thing. Started his own |
| 0:03.7 | company and merged it into fresh deal, which he owns now a little bit, a little bit less than 50% |
| 0:08.2 | of. Again, they're growing a company up in New York. I also have team in Spain launched in |
| 0:12.9 | 2015, team of five right now. They raised about 250 grand so far, currently doing another round, |
| 0:18.7 | raising about 1.5, helping 6,000 companies right now using the |
| 0:22.4 | platform for free they put about 100 million bucks in trade to the platform the goal basically |
| 0:26.4 | decrease waste in this produce space 40% goes totally the waste right now and he thinks by building |
| 0:31.7 | an end-to-end trading platform for this kind of things we can get significantly more efficient |
| 0:36.8 | especially in this part of the supply chain. |
| 0:38.6 | This is the top entrepreneurs podcast |
| 0:41.9 | where founders share how they started their companies |
| 0:44.6 | and got filthy rich or crash and burn. |
| 0:49.9 | Each episode features revenue numbers, |
| 0:52.9 | customer counts, and other insider information that creates |
| 0:56.7 | business news headlines. We went from a couple hundred thousand dollars to two point seven million. |
| 1:02.5 | I had no money when I started the company. It was $160 million, which is the size of any IPOs. |
| 1:07.9 | We're a bit strapped. We have like 22,000 customers. |
| 1:12.7 | With over 5 million downloads in a very short amount of time, |
| 1:17.0 | major outlets like Inc are calling us the fastest growing business show on iTunes. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm your host, Nathan Latka, and here's today's episode. |
| 1:26.3 | Hello, everyone. |
| 1:26.8 | My guest today is Jose Batiste. |
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