Josh LaSov is the founder and former CEO of Satori Reporting, an advanced reporting and business intelligence (BI) solution for mid-market businesses that use NetSuite financial software. Satori provided pre-built reports and dashboards, a tailored data warehouse, and detailed data models that leveraged the popular Power BI software.
Josh launched Satori, his second NetSuite solution, in 2019 and grew quickly in the NetSuite ecosystem. With a savvy team and no outside equity funding, they raised over $500K in debt-like non-dilutive SaaS funding from Founderpath to grow faster. In 2022, Satori was sold to private equity buyer Insight Partners and combined with another NetSuite provider, Zone & Co., and is now called Zone Reporting.
In this episode, Josh talks about the benefits and challenges of building add-on solutions in the NetSuite ecosystem, their ROI of non-dilutive funding and strategic angel investors, selling two companies then getting bored and restless, and starting his third company, Cauzzy.ai to provide AI-powered automated financial analysis and insights.
Quote from Josh LaSov, founder and former CEO of Satori Reporting
“When you have a good exit, you can assume the lifestyle that you desire to live, you can slow down. So from 2022 until starting Cauzzy.ai in 2024, I did that, I worked out every day. I listened to more podcasts than any human should listen to. I educated myself, read every newspaper and news site. I took time for myself.
“What I found was…it wasn’t fulfilling. I needed more. I didn’t want to be on the sidelines. I felt myself getting slower, like I was retiree. I appreciated the journey more than the destination. But there’s a balance and I could achieve that balance.
“I needed to do something, but I didn’t want to just jump into something just to do it. I was to be patient until I found something that I was passionate about and that’s realizable. I thought, I can do this again, I want to do this again. Let’s take our time and focus a bit more on balance this time, but let’s get back in the game.”
Links
- Josh LaSov on LinkedIn
- Zone Reporting (formerly Satori Reporting) on LinkedIn
- Zone Reporting (formerly Satori Reporting)
- Cauzzy.ai website
- NetSuite website
- Founderpath website
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