{"id":255,"date":"2026-10-27T18:35:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2026-10-27T18:39:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:39:06","slug":"transcript-sedso-300-building-a-billion-dollar-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/2026\/10\/27\/transcript-sedso-300-building-a-billion-dollar-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcript + SEDSO 300: Building a Billion-Dollar Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sedso.io\/reports\/us\/wi\/uw-madison\/26\/rajiv-batra\/batra-rules-card.png\" width=\"95%\"><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sedso.io\/reports\/us\/wi\/uw-madison\/26\/rajiv-batra\/\">Rajiv Batra<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A founder came back to the department he graduated from in 1983 and talked, for the most part, about the unglamorous half of a startup. Not the idea and not the funding, but the organization you have to build around them: who to hire, how to pay them, what culture costs if you leave it until year three, and how to tell a company that is merely slow from one that is already dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rajiv Batra: A founder came back to the department he graduated from in 1983 and talked, for the most part, about the unglamorous half of a startup. Not the idea and not the funding, but the organization you have to build around&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}