How to build a $15M/year AI company.
Pavel Doležal built Keboola to $15 million per year.
How he did it:
1. Start with consulting, so clients tell you what they need
2. Build software that makes companies’ chaotic data accessible. NO agents yet.
3. Create agents that take action. That’s the hardest part.
At the end of this interview, Pavel tells you how YOU should start an AI company and about the three successful companies that followed his advice.
Pavel Doležal is the co-founder and CEO of Keboola, a cloud-based data platform used by over 21,000 companies worldwide. Before Keboola, he helped build Atlas, one of Eastern Europe’s leading internet portals, and went on to found several data-focused companies. Today, Pavel leads a global team making it easier for businesses to integrate, analyze, and automate their data—with clients ranging from fast-growing startups to global enterprises.
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Andrew Warner: Hey there, freedom Fighters. My name is Andrew Warner.
I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses for an audience of ambitious entrepreneurs like me, like you, like today’s [00:00:09] guest. So get this. Imagine you’re running a company and people tell, use the data, right? The data is the answer for everything. But fricking a going and getting the data is [00:00:18] often harder than it seems, and the bigger the company is, the harder the data seems to be.
And so most people will say, okay, we’ll run the data once a month or once a quarter whenever we can. [00:00:27] But to get it on a daily basis, or even frankly instantaneously would be dramatically different for a business. And so that’s what today’s guest set out to [00:00:36] do. He created a company that does that. I met him last Friday and I said, oh, these stories that you’re...
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