Uncharted Podcast

In this exciting episode we sit down with Taylor, founder of Eden Data, to discuss his incredible pivot from corporate life to entrepreneurship. Taylor shares the bold decision to quit his job just before the pandemic hit, leading him to turn to Upwork. From gamifying client acquisition to navigating the challenges of scaling a bootstrapped startup, Taylor reveals the highs and lows of his journey...

About this week's guest: Jeremy is an entrepreneur whose goal is to create products that positively impact people's lives. He caught the startup bug 18 years ago and has been building and growing products ever since. His first startup journey concluded when his team was acquired by Facebook, where he went on to spend nine years in growth and product roles. Now, Jeremy is focused on building Sideba...

Our guest is Balki Kodarapu, an all-in engineering leader and entrepreneur at heart. Balki has a proven track record of leading SaaS products from inception to hyper-growth, helping companies achieve 2x to 10x revenue growth, including two successful exits. He loves being a hands-on engineer, director, and VP of Engineering (all at once!), shaping product strategy and building high-performing team...

Our guest this week is Ray Rike. Ray has over 30 years of experience in subscription-based software, service, and SaaS companies. His passion for data-driven, metrics informed decision making started with his selection to the GE Executive Management Development program and was subsequently enhanced by his experiences across five successful SaaS and software company exits. These experiences, couple...

Our speaker this week is Manoj Agarwal, President, and Co-founder of DevRev. Manoj is the co-founder and President of DevRev, one of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley with unprecedented seed funding and recent $1B series A round. Previously, he held executive positions at Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX), leading engineering teams and playing a vital role in the company's successful IPO in 2016, which...

This week's a re-purposed episode from a popular episode few years back to celebrate a popular episode with Airbase CEO which recently exited to Paylocity. The guest is Thejo Kote, CEO of Airbase.  His first startup, Automatic, was acquired by Sirius XM for $100m and Airbase recently announced they are being acquired by Paylocity for $325 Million. This week's episode is brought to you with...

Tido was an early engineering leader at Facebook, Dropbox, and Chief Product Officer @ Segment from early days through its acquisition by Twilio. He now is Co-Founder @ Koala, which is an end-to-end pipeline generation platform used by thousands of Sales teams.

Karim Atiyeh is the co-founder and CTO of Ramp, a finance automation platform that helps businesses spend less time and money. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card in America and enables billions of dollars of purchases each year on the heels of nearly 10x year-over-year growth. Valued at $8.1 billion two years after launch, Ramp has raised hundreds of millions in equity...

Andrew Davies is the CMO of Paddle, a payments infrastructure platform for high-growth SaaS companies serving over 3000 customers. He has more than 20 years of experience in start-ups ranging from leading global demand, advisory and consultancy, and even teaching.

Tony Barbagallo is the VP of Marketing at DuploCloud, a company that automates the most tedious tasks of DevOps. Prior to DuploCloud, Tony served as the CEO of Caringo where he was previously spearheading marketing. Prior to that, he held a variety of roles across startups and large enterprises in product management, sales, marketing and engineering. A graduate of Syracuse University, Tony current...

About our speaker: Shensi Ding is the co-founder and CEO of Merge, a company that offers a unified API to add hundreds of integrations to your product. Prior to founding Merge, Shensi served as the Chief of Staff at Expanse (acquired by Palo Alto Networks) and worked in investment banking roles at Credit Suisse and Silver Lake. A graduate of Columbia University, Shensi currently resides in and wor...

Our speaker this week is Sean Ericson, where we discussed the following, the founder of Abloom GTM, a sales development advisory firm that architects SDR and RevOps motions. Before Abloom, he provided foundational consulting services for 30+ startups like Clearbit, ConductorOne, Semgrep and Dolby.io as a Partner at InsideScale, and was a founding SDR at Talkdesk. Sean holds a Master's in Inter...

This week's guest is James Evans, the co-founder and CEO of CommandBar, a user assistance software company that powers chat and proactive help interfaces for hundreds of software businesses and millions of end users. Before CommandBar, he worked in private equity investing at Bain Capital and studied CS at Princeton. Here’s a summary of the key points from the interview with James Evans on the Unc...

On this episode we delve into the inspiring journey of Tim Schumacher, the CEO and co-founder of SaaS Group. Tim shares his entrepreneurial adventures, from coding games in his teens to scaling successful companies and becoming a key player in SaaS. Discover his insights on making acquisitions founder-friendly, the importance of long-term vision, and his passion for climate tech. This conversation...

Karl Sun is co-founder and chairman at Lucid Software, a leading provider of visual collaboration software. With Lucid’s products—Lucidchart, Lucidspark and Lucidscale—teams can turn ideas into reality, clarify complexity, and collaborate visually, no matter where they're located. Prior to Lucid, Karl spent several years at Google, starting and leading business development at Google’s China of...

This Week's Episode is Jim Yu, Founder and Chairman of BridgeEdge. Jim is the founder and exec chair of BrightEdge. As CEO of BrightEdge, Jim helped create a whole new category in digital marketing software and built BrightEdge into the enterprise market leader with $100M+ in revenue, profitable, and 500 employees. It is used by 57% of Fortune 100 companies and nine out of the top ten internat...

In today’s episode, Poya shares his keynote from SaaStanak that took place in Croatia, and dives into the common mistakes founders make when expanding into the United States market, with practical advice and engaging storytelling from his experience working with over a dozen companies such as HackerRank, Automile, Plato and more. This episode is packed with actionable tips, real-world examples, an...

Sid is the Head of Studio at Forum VC, a venture studio with a goal of building 8 AI companies per year. Prior to joining Forum VC, Sid started Broca, an AI software that generates ad copy and other forms of marketing content. He has also helped dozens of SAAS companies with their growth. Some companies he has worked with include Thinkific, LemonStand, Gorgias, Plato, Typeform, and ClickUp This ep...

This week, we feature a conversation with Tom, the CEO and founder of Jiminny. We're excited to reintroduce this valuable episode, originally recorded some time ago. The insights remain incredibly relevant, and we believe they will resonate with our growing audience. Join us as Tom shares his journey from a sales background to founding Jiminny, the challenges and lessons learned along the way,...

We're excited to re-release one of our earliest and most insightful episodes from 2020, featuring Greg Sands, Founder and Managing Partner of . In just 15 minutes, Greg shares his journey from skating on frozen Minneapolis lakes to shaping the future of early-stage investing. Discover the principles that guide his investment strategy, and the art of being an exceptional investor. Greg also div...

This week's episode features a repurposed interview where Federico Ramallo interviewed Poya Osgouei on the IrregEx Podcast. Federico's qustions were put together using an AI speaker. In this episode, Poya dives deep into various topics, including his experiences growing up as an immigrant in the United States, what he's learned over the years as a startup advisor and his approaching to...

This Week's Guest is Kevin Mulrane. Kevin Mulrane jumped onto Sales Operations Demystified to share his thoughts on the blurring of sales leadership and sales operations, why sales reps need to become the CEO of their own business and why you should "Win what is winnable".

This week's guest on Uncharted Podcast with Poya Osgouei is Fabian Veit, the CEO at Make. Fabian joined the leadership team of Make in 2020 after the business was acquired by Celonis, a leading process mining platform and execution management software. Before Make, Fabian held various roles at Celonis, from Data Scientist to VP Operations and People COO, spearheading the organization's gro...

Amir Orad, a seasoned CEO/entrepreneur in AI/analytics, Cyber, and FinTech, has a proven track record of scaling tech companies, including Sisense, Actimize, and Cyota, achieving 9-figure revenues, profitability, and market leadership. As CEO & Chairman of Sisense, revenue grew 17X over eight years to $150M, transitioning to native cloud SaaS and achieving profitability. Sisense serves thousan...

This week's guest is Karel Callens Karel Callens is the CEO and founder of Cumul.io, and is based in Leuven, Belgium. He has worked in the field of big data and analytics for over 10 + years and has an education from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. This is brought to you with support from Netsuite.com/scale