Today was a busy day as we explored the great university of Stanford and a small start up company called Contastic. Walking around Stanford, we learned a lot about the past of Stanford. We learned about how the school use to be free until eventually, they started to charge $140 a semester to attend. The campus is rich in history and even shows that in art, even showcasing a piece of art that has over 22,000 colours in it alone! The school tends to develop and work on expanding its student population. One of the most interesting facts that I found out was that about 97% students return after freshman year and about 96% stay on campus all 4 years! As we concluded our tour around Stanford, we would be heading off to a small start up company called Contastic.
Contastic is a company that focuses on data driven sales automation, which lead some of their customers to be Tesla and Splunk. We met with the CEO and Founder, Cy who talked to us about his personal side and business lessons. He would go on to repeat the message that it is okay to fail and that you need to fail in order to learn. We found out that when you invest more money over time, you tend to find more success than those who make money straight away. As sitting in the presentation, I thought it was interesting that Sy talked about fitting the perfect product with the perfect model market is the key to success. Overall, we learned a lot about Contastic during our presentation with Sy and I believe he gave me a lot of good points to think about.
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