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Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Update: 2025-01-08
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Two-time founder Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure.


After dropping out of college to build FlightCar, he worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC.


In 2020, he co-founded Zip, a procurement software company that has since raised $370 million and reached a $2.2 billion valuation.


In this conversation with YC's Dalton Caldwell, Rujul demystifies the world of enterprise sales, shares his hard-earned lessons about scaling a business from zero, and explains how founders can use first-principles thinking to better approach the challenges of building a startup.

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Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

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