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For Starters

Adam Smith (Wrangle) and Kelly Pfrommer (Cloud Giants) on being the boss

  • S1E3
  • 51:08
  • June 8th 2021

Is it boss to be The Boss? Host Robbie Allen and his guests explore whether being your own boss—rather than an employee—is all it's cracked up to be.

For Starters

For Starters shares insights about launching a new business from those who’ve done it before so you can learn from what they did right—and wrong.

This program is produced by GrepBeat and hosted by Anil Chawla of ArchiveSocial (now Optimere).

Thanks to Robinson Bradshaw for sponsoring this series.

Meet the Host

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Anil Chawla
Tech Entrepreneur

Anil Chawla is the founder and former CEO of ArchiveSocial, a social media archiving software for records compliance and risk management for public entities. He led the company from a niche idea to eight-figure annual revenue and more than 2,300 employees. In 2021, ArchiveSocial was acquired by CivicPlus.

Prior to diving into entrepreneurship, Anil spent his early career as a software engineer at IBM developing enterprise-grade security software and experimenting with emerging internet technologies. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in computer science.