The Neon Show Inside the mind of Baskar Subramanian, Co-Founder, Amagi Corporation
Sep 6, 2020
51:11
Baskar’s journey is very similar to what classic Product-driven Tech entrepreneurs have, i.e. a college drop-out built several tech solutions from an early age, founded a fast-paced startup growing multi-folds over years.He co-founded Amagi Media Labs, in 2008 with the intent to revolutionize global content delivery & monetization of the Media Industry. Amagi is one of the few startups which experienced constant growth even in the Covid-19 circumstances and has no plans of slowing down its growth engines anytime soon.In this podcast, Baskar shares his experience of building tech solutions and his learnings from being a Tech entrepreneur for over two decades.Notes - 01:09 - Enabling end-to-end global virtualization of content delivery and monetization in Media Industry03:22 - Major emerging trends in Media & OTT platforms for broadcasters08:50 - Evolution of OTTs in the US and how Amagi helps them as a one-stop-shop!11:59 - His journey from dropping out of IIT Bombay (during MTech) to starting Amagi?21:12 - Transiting from an Advertising sales model to a Technology platform25:44 - Growth in Revenue from 2012 to till date28:35 - How was the fund-raising experience being in the Media industry?32:32 - What’s his end goal with Amagi? Going Public, achieving a $200 Million ARR or something else?36:34 - What are the processes which helped him as an entrepreneur & the company to grow exponentially?38:25 - How “letting go” is a very crucial part of the growth process?40:36 - How being open, vulnerable, and accepting your mistakes openly within the team can help a company grow?