‘The most important thing to overcome as a founder is FOMO’ w/ Sudarsan Ravi @ RippleHire
Description
In today's episode, Sudarsan Ravi, Founder & CEO of Talent Acquisition platform RippleHire, talks about how he stayed authentic in the face of early-day FOMO, what it takes to sell in a low-trust market like India and why you can’t put a deadline on building a great company.
Show notes:
2:25 : RippleHire: ‘The’ word for employee referral
3:50 : Ironic but true. Competition creates staying power
6:14 : Getting funded does not prove ambition
8:12 : Pole vaulting over FOMO
10:42 : Selling at 40x pricing over competition in India
13:12 : Buying SaaS in India - What’s new
16:05 : Looking back on the Oh s**t! moments
17:18 : What first-time founders can learn from my journey?
18:56 : Why second-time founders put value over valuation
Upekkha-EY Bellwethers of Indian SaaS Report 2023
https://www.upekkha.io/ey-upekkha-report
Social:
Website: https://www.upekkha.io/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/upekkha
Twitter: https://twitter.com/upekkhaBe
About the host:
Thiyagarajan Maruthavanan (Rajan) is the co-founder and Partner at the Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator where he has worked with over 100 early-stage startups to build their SaaS flywheel. Prior to this, he was a product leader at Intuit and worked on Quickbooks online in its global market expansion. Rajan has helped with over a dozen cross-border strategic acquisitions.