Kevel's James Avery: When Stack Overflow is Your First Customer
- S2E1
- 47:44
- January 17th 2023
In the season premiere, Anil is chatting with Kevel (formerly known as Adzerk) Founder & CEO James Avery. You may not have heard of Kevel, but if you've spent any time on the internet after 2010, you've probably experienced its technology through the magic of online ads. The platform allows companies to build an ad server in just a few weeks. With early customers like Stack Overflow, Reddit and Yelp, find out how James turned his experiences running an ad network into a thriving platform that powered some of the internet's most trafficked sites.
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.