About
Deepak Anchala was the founder of Slintel, which was acquired by 6sense in 2021. Three years after they launched their product, Slintel had scaled to over 300 customers and 100 employees, raised $26m in funding from top tier VCs and saw a successful exit. This book captures the story of Slintel and all the learnings from their journey that hopefully can help anyone realise their dream of starting, scaling and potentially selling their own business.
Deepak shares his personal journey of starting up and also provides tangible advice to founders who are in the early stages of building their companies. There are many lessons in this book - the one I like the most is "Just start".
Rajan Anandan - Managing Director, Peak XV Partners (Previously Sequoia India)
This book takes us through Slintel's story of friendship, lots of sleepless nights, meticulous execution, and a lot of grit - and finally hitting an exit homerun. Highly recommend the book for all SaaS founders.
Prayank Swaroop - Partner, Accel
Deepak is one of those rare entrepreneurs who gets product as well as go to market, in addition to being an outstanding leader. While there are no templates for success, this is a great guide for early stage entrepreneurs on how to get the basics right.
Alok Goyal - Partner, Stellaris Ventures
Slintel is the speedster bike of the startup world. 40 months from inception to a large exit -- This book will take you through the extraordinary race!
Sri Peddu - General Partner, Powerhouse Ventures
Throughout working with my twenty plus unicorns, I have found the most important quality for success is awareness of yourself and your competition’s needs and weaknesses. You will learn a lot from reading his book.
Hans Tung - Managing Partner, Notable Capital (Previously GGV Capital)
Deepak and Rahul not only built an amazing product but most importantly built an amazing team to deliver the product. The book highlights the journey and the things to do and most importantly NOT do when building your dreams.
Viral Bajaria - CTO and Cofounder, 6sense (Company that acquired Slintel)
Bio
Deepak Anchala was born and raised in India. He currently lives in Silicon Valley with his wife and two kids. Idea to Exit is his first book as an author, where he shares the story of Slintel and lessons learnt from starting, scaling and selling the business.
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