Levitate's Jes Lipson: When Finding Product Market Fit is Harder After a $93M Exit
- S2E10
- 53:25
- March 21st 2023
In the final episode of season two, Anil chats with Jes Lipson, who is well known for having one of the most successful bootstrapped software exits in the region with his company ShareFile. It was sold to Citrix for $93 million. Not only does he talk about ShareFile, but Jes also shared finding product market fit the second time around for his current venture, Levitate. He talked about crucial lessons and how to manage the transition from bootstrapped to raising money.
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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.