0- $100m exit with Rami Essaid, former founder/CEO of Distil Networks & founder/CEO of Finmark

This episode of the From Start to Scale podcast features Rami Essaid, former founder/CEO of Distil Networks & founder/CEO of Finmark. Rami has sold Distil Networks for over $100m and recently sold Finmark in Nov 2022. Rami shares his story from building Distil Networks through transitioning out of founder led sales and to exit. He created a category from scratch and had no competitors in the early days. Learn how he built the category, designed the team, generated incredible scale and hear a few things he could change if he had the chance.

Rami's bio:

Rami Essaid, two-time startup founder and passionate entrepreneur, has been building companies for over a decade. He was the founder and CEO of Distil Networks, acquired by Imperva in 2019, before starting his latest venture Finmark, financial modeling software for startups. At Distil Networks, he saw firsthand how difficult and time-consuming financial modeling can be, and built Finmark, so that anyone, not just finance pros, can easily make and update a financial model without having to spend weeks laboring over complicated spreadsheets. Finmark was recently acquired by BILL in late 2022.

You can find out more about Rami in the links below:

Linkedin: Linkedin.com/in/ramiessaid/

Twitter: @ramiessaid

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