Yuval Selik is co-founder and CEO of Promomash, a software platform and managed service for Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands to manage their trade promotions and field marketing activities. Yuval is a former CPG founder who encountered the expensive, complex, and crucial process of managing trade promotions with stores and distributors.
Promomash launched in 2015 to serve mid-sized CPG companies that don’t have custom software and their own teams to manage promotion spend and budget compliance with retailers. With 125 employees, they now serve over 500 customers with their software and optional analysts who can perform complex sell-through reconciliation and spend analysis.
Yuval and his co-founder raised under $1 million from angel investors to get started, and the company is now profitable and growing steadily. Yuval also hosts The 7 Hats Podcast, which helps entrepreneurs master the seven key areas of their lives, ensuring both success and fulfillment.
Quote from Yuval Selik, the founder and CEO of Promomash
“That’s really the reason why we did not raise funds from big investors, because I don’t want to have the pressures of somebody on my board telling me that I have to grow 50%, 80%, or 100% year over year.
“Sometimes you need to pull back in order to fix your product. Sometimes you need to push forward and step on the gas a little bit. But that decision needs to be my decision, not a VC investor’s decision.
“Others in our market that raised big VC funding, in our competitive landscape. They are not run by their founders; they’re run by their investors”
Links
- Yuval Selik on LinkedIn
- Promomash on LinkedIn
- Promomash website
- The 7 Hats Podcast
- Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO
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