He sold his first startup for $100M. Then raised $250M in 18 months. | Dileep Thazhmon, Founder of Jeeves
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Dileep Thazhmon shares his journey building Jeeves, a global business banking platform that reached $7M ARR in just over a year by solving cross-border financial challenges banks wouldn't touch. He discusses the founder mentality of being '60% good at everything,' recognizing true product-market fit, and the tactical challenges of scaling fintech operations across 25 countries.
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How a serial founder evaluated eight different startup ideas before building Jeeves
eight different comp like, starting eight different companies. One was in the health space. One was, you know, in kind of, financial infrastructure. Right? A little bit different from DU's. But, eventually, this is the one that kind of clicked. And it's a little bit of, like, what do you feel like you can contribute that's special? How big is the actual market you're solving? And then is there some special timing component? COVID was one of them that is pushing kind of an output for what you're trying to build. But it it was a little bit of, like I I like, I knew I wanted to start something again. I just didn't know what. And so it took me maybe about a year of thinking through options before kind of deciding on Jeeves.
Yeah. Walk me through how you end up deciding on Jeeves. You mentioned some of the elements that you thought about, but maybe just more of the the specifics because what you decide to start is a huge determinant of where you could possibly
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