How Sunil Patro created SignEasy while living in hostels

Sunil Patro, SignEasy, Bootstrapping, International Founders, SaaS (software as a service)

Today’s guest is a guy who discovered a problem he thought he could solve. Nearly 10 years ago, someone sent him a document but because of his location, he wasn’t able to sign it.

So he said, “There might be a bigger solution here.”

I’m surprised to learn that his business is bootstrapped considering how successful it is. I want to find out how he did it and how he found a sweet spot in SMBs and individual proprietors.

Sunil Patro is the founder of SignEasy, a cloud-based eSignature solution for smartphones, tablets and computers with 6M downloads to date and 120K active users.

Sunil Patro

SignEasy

Sunil Patro is the founder of SignEasy, an easy way to sign and send documents electronically from your phone, tablet or computer.

Andrew: 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 entrepreneurs. As I was cycling in this morning, I got a phone call from today’s guest. I just dig your preparation. He wanted to make sure that he was fully prepared, and I thought he listened to the past interviews. He had someone on his team who checked in with me yesterday. They sent me not just information about the company, including articles that I could read to be prepared, but they listened to, he listened to interviews to prepare and he even sent me a video of an early version of his software. I got so deep in his world.

So who are we going to talk to? We’re going to talk to Sunil Patro. He is a guy who ran into a problem. He got a document sent to him about nine years ago and he wasn’t able to sign it and he said, “There might be a bigger need here than I...

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