Augusto Marietti
- Co-Founder and CEO at Kong Inc
GetLatka interview
How Kong Inc Grew Well Past $10M ARR with 130 Enterprise Customers and 133% Net Revenue Retention (Interview with CEO Augusto Marietti)
Augusto Marietti (Co-Founder and CEO of Kong Inc) spoke to Nathan Latka on June 1, 2020.
Kong Inc figures from the interview
- ARR
- $10M+
- Enterprise Customers
- 130
- Net Revenue Retention (reported Jun 2020)
- 133%
- Gross Margin (reported Jun 2020)
- 85%
- Total Funding Raised
- $71M
“Yeah. Yeah. So Kong, it's API platforms that helps you manage, secure and govern all APIs across your companies. And it's an open source, open core business model.”
“Think about it like building the nervous system, right, of the cloud. In your body, you have the nervous system, which is peripheral, and then you have the central, which is brain and spine.”
“We have about more than 130 large enterprise customer.”
Bio
Augusto Aghi Marietti is an inventor, technology entrepreneur and angel investor. As the CEO and co-founder of Kong the API company on a mission to intelligently broker information across all services he drives the company's vision, strategy and long-term growth. Prior to Kong, he was the CEO and co-founder of Mashape, the largest API marketplace, which was acquired by RapidAPI in 2017. Before that, he founded MemboxX, the first European cloud service for storing documents and sensitive personal data. Augusto holds a B.S. in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan. He is the lead inventor on five U.S. patents and an angel investor in more than 10 startups.
Company
Kong Inc
San Francisco, United States · Founded 2009
- Revenue
- $100M
- Funding
- $344.3M
- Team size
- 879
- Customers
- 130