4.6 • 683 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Ankesh, was born in India, educated in London, based in Silicon Valley. ATSystems, 0-$22m in 4 years. Sold to TMP/Monster. Personic, 0- $25m in 4 years. Raised $50m, Personic sold to Kronos. Sold patents to Google for "Sharing as a Page Ranking Mechanism," prior to Facebook's "Like button"
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0:00.0 | I would rather have a partner, a flagship account that someone's working with us in that relationship. |
0:04.9 | I think money is secondary at this stage in the company. You know, you just love these people to death. |
0:08.9 | So, I mean, that's just my approach. I think where I want to get to, if you want numbers in five years, |
0:13.5 | I want a million sales people giving us $25 million a month, which is $250 million dollars a month. |
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