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Venture capital isn’t always the only path to growth for a technology business, as Sunny Gupta, co-founder and former CEO of Apptio, shared with Rebecca Buckman at CloudNY 2024. 🌐🚀 Per Sunny, private equity investment was instrumental in Apptio, an IBM Company’s development, helping them to grow from 500 to 2,000 customers while doubling ARR before IBM acquired the company.
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Global CIO & Chief of Product at The Alacer Group
4wVery well explained by Sunny Gupta, it’s great point which Rebecca brought it as startups think that they can grow faster with VCs. A lot more to learn.