Anil Chawla (ArchiveSocial) and Jes Lipson (Levitate) on Go Big or Grow Slow
- S1E9
- 1:04:13
- August 31st 2021
Host Robbie Allen chats with Anil Chawla (ArchiveSocial) and Jes Lipson (Levitate) about whether early stage businesses should grow through profit or raise money through angels and venture capitalists.
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
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.