Off the Record with Aram

And today we are chatting with Stephen Hakami, the CEO of a bootstrapped company called Wiza. Software that creates email lists from LinkedIn.

Show Notes

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Key talking points: 

- How Stephen quit his job to start his first company
- Wiza could potentially replace zoominfo for B2B companies - why/how
- Relevance vs context of your sales/marketing emails
- Stephen’s views on bootstrapping vs taking capital
- Saying no to new shiny opportunities as a CEO


About Stephen:

Stephen used to run an outbound sales agency. Later launched a company called Wiza with his agency’s profit. He bootstrapped it to $160,000 MRR in 16 months. 
Wiza creates email lists for your outbound efforts from LinkedIn.

What is Off the Record with Aram?

Made by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Off the Record is about the journey. It’s about fears, doubts, wins, and devastating losses. It’s about how people kept going no matter what to build their businesses, raise cash and hire the team.
Here battle-tested CEOs and VCs share how they jumped out of the airplane and tried to assemble it on the way down.
I hope you like it.

- Aram, CEO @ Crowdlinker.