Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach - Coming Back from Near Death Company Experiences, Is the Planet You are On Inhabitable? Learning to Rely on Your Own Judgement, Things that are Worthwhile to Do are Hard Founders Uncut: Real Startup Stories

With me today is Raj De Datta, CEO & Co-founder of Bloomreach and bestselling author. Bloomreach has over $100M in ARR, powers $400BN of ecommerce sales and has raised over $400M. But these are just the headlines. Listen to the real story on Founders Uncut. In this episode, you will hear more from him on:

Near Death Experiences 

When 25M ARR Just Isn’t enough

Telling Investors This Could Be a Zero

Realising what may be a False Dream

Culture is Tested In the Hard Times

Making Tough Decisions Early


Coming Back from Near Death

From $25M ARR back to $1M to over $100M in 6 years

Is the Planet you are Inhabiting Repairable or Uninhabitable 

Finding another Planet while keeping Employees & Investors with You

Growing for 5 years without Raising - Revenue Based Growth

Hero to Zero and Zero to Hero overnight


The Founder Mindset 

Why you have to be 100% in as the Leader

The Question you are not Allowed to Ask Yourself

Defining Himself as a Founder

Why You Don’t Want investors to have all their Eggs in your Basket 

Relying on Yourself - In the End it’s Your Judgement

Building Early Investor Relationships

Probability of Value Destroyer VC versus Value Add 

The Best Part of Being a Founder - There is Nothing You Can’t Do 

The Process of Writing a Book

Things that are Worthwhile are Really Hard 


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