Rob Bernshteyn, Coupa CEO: Saving Your Way to Success
Rob Bernshteyn is the latest guest on the Fortt Knox Podcast: rich ideas, powerful people. iPhone and iTunes, subscribe here. Stitcher, subscribe here.
Frugality is baked into Rob Bernshteyn’s life experience. His family immigrated from Russia when he was a kid, and he used savings from a paper route to start a baseball card business … that helped pay for his college education. In his mid-30s, after an executive role at SuccessFactors, Rob’s entrepreneurial itch became overwhelming, and he used his modest IPO windfall to launch Coupa.
Coupa’s mission? What else — help businesses save money through smart software.
Rob and I met at the Nasdaq Marketsite in Times Square to talk about how far Coupa’s come — it’s now a public company worth $2 billion — and how he got there.
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Associate Director at CrossCountry Consulting | Coupa Implementation and Support Partner | Financial Systems Implementation & Digital Transformation
6 年“Once you’re clear on strategy it’s all execution.” Cool interview.
Procurement Systems Analyst at Mineral Resources Limited
6 年Great interview. The part about developing confidence (of a healthy kind) through understanding things at a deep level was a highlight. I also really appreciated the part about finding satisfaction not just in the results of hard work but also (or even primarily) in the very process of it.