How an Excel spreadsheet became a startup that landed PayPal (as its FIRST client) – with Thoran Rodrigues

Thoran Rodrigues, BigData Corp, B2B, Bootstrapping, International Founders, Marketing, PR / Media Marketing, Scaling, South American Founders, System, Traffic

Today’s guest built an incredible company that you’ve probably never seen.

Thoran Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of BigData Corp which helps companies to automate the way they work with huge volumes of information.

It’s not sexy. It’s not the kind of business that people share with their friends on their mobile phones. But it’s the kind of company that gets to grow, gets to build solid revenues and gets to be a real business.

Today, we’re going to find out how he did it.

Thoran Rodrigues

BigData Corp

Thoran Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of BigData Corp which helps companies to automate the way they work with huge volumes of information.

Thoran: Hi.

Andrew: Yeah. We can both do it. Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy.com and it is, of course, home of the ambitious upstart. Speaking of upstart, I’ve got a guest today who a few minutes before our interview started didn’t have electricity and still, he built this incredible company.

The incredible company you’re about to find out about does business to business sales, basically he built software that you probably don’t see. It’s not sexy. It’s not the kind of stuff that people share with their friends on their mobile phones. But it’s the kind of company that gets to grow, that gets to build solid revenues and gets to be a real business. Today, we’re going to find out how he did it. His name is Thoran Rodrigues. How did I do with the name?

Thoran: You did pretty well. Better than most.

Andrew: How would you say it?

Thoran: Well, so,...

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