Elastic.io launches company in 2013 grew it to about a million dollars in revenue before selling

it in 2017 to a larger company. It's now grown, obviously, the last disclosed public numbers

were about 2.3 million euros in revenue. They continue to grow rapidly, and that's all $900,000

of EBITDA, which is obviously nice growth, healthy growth. They did this all bootstrapped,

which is obviously a great story serving hundreds of customers in the Zapier kind of MuleSoft space,

iPass space, scaling up to 50 folks on the team today. Hello, everyone, my guest today is

Ranao Zubarov. He is the CEO and co-founder of Elastic.io. Before Taland, D.HL, and Novia, he's also a geek and a father

of three, but now, again, full-time focused on Elastic, which is helping bring data from apps and

clouds together. Ren, you ready to take us to the top? Oh, yes. All right. I'm ready. Thanks.

So give some context here first.

If people missed your first interview with me, Elastic is very much in the space of kind of

Zapier or more enterprise like Mule Soft.

Where to kind of put yourself on the spectrum.

Yeah, it's somewhere between Zapier and Mulesoft, I would say.

Okay.

So we are more complicated, more complicated, more flexible than Zapir, but let's say less comprehensive

or let's say less broadly spread across the different industries than the users and less

enterprises than you.

Yep.

And you are, this interview is also a little bit different because you have sold the company.

You're now basically running the company inside of another company correct correct yes when did you launch

the company in the first place we launched in 2013 and we were three co-funders so three founders

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