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Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Building A $2 Billion SaaS Company: Lessons From A Two Time Founder

Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Jan 8, 2025 25 min
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<p>Two-time founder Rujul Zaparde knows a thing or two about resilience and learning from failure. </p><p>After dropping out of college to build FlightCar, he worked as a PM at Airbnb, and later as a visiting partner at YC. </p><p>In 2020, he co-founded Zip, a procurement software company that has since raised $370 million and reached a $2.2 billion valuation. </p><p>In this conversation with YC's Dalton Caldwell, Rujul demystifies the world of enterprise sales, shares his hard-earned lessons about scaling a business from zero, and explains how founders can use first-principles thinking to better approach the challenges of building a startup.</p>

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