In this episode, host Rob Scott sits down with Ray Nolan, the Irish tech legend who turned college dropout into billion-pound business builder—all without venture capital. Ray's story demolishes Silicon Valley mythology with cold, hard pragmatism and customer-funded growth. Starting as a self-taught programmer who abandoned electrical engineering, Ray stumbled from telephone billing software into the global hospitality empire that became Hostelworld. His unconventional approach? Skip the Powe...
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In this episode, host Rob Scott sits down with Ray Nolan, the Irish tech legend who turned college dropout into billion-pound business builder—all without venture capital. Ray's story demolishes Silicon Valley mythology with cold, hard pragmatism and customer-funded growth. Starting as a self-taught programmer who abandoned electrical engineering, Ray stumbled from telephone billing software into the global hospitality empire that became Hostelworld. His unconventional approach? Skip the Powe...
Michael Tessler - From Two-Person Startup to $1.9B Cloud Communications Empire
Binary to Billions
45 minutes
1 month ago
Michael Tessler - From Two-Person Startup to $1.9B Cloud Communications Empire
Join host Rob Scott for an extraordinary conversation with Michael Tessler, the visionary co-founder and former CEO of BroadSoft who literally created the Unified Communications-as-a-Service industry. In 1998, while others focused on hardware, Michael saw the future: enterprise communications would shift to software delivered over the internet. Discover how he and co-founder Scott Hoffpauir grew BroadSoft from humble beginnings into a global powerhouse serving 50 million users across 80 count...
Binary to Billions
In this episode, host Rob Scott sits down with Ray Nolan, the Irish tech legend who turned college dropout into billion-pound business builder—all without venture capital. Ray's story demolishes Silicon Valley mythology with cold, hard pragmatism and customer-funded growth. Starting as a self-taught programmer who abandoned electrical engineering, Ray stumbled from telephone billing software into the global hospitality empire that became Hostelworld. His unconventional approach? Skip the Powe...
