Startup Exits Podcast with Thejo Kote, founder of Automatic
The $115 million sale to Sirius XM: how Thejo started, ran and sold Automatic

Thejo Kote
Founder of Automatic
We chat with Thejo about
- How a school project turned into a successful startup
- Getting into and life after Y Combinator
- Failing to raise at YC demo day
- How raising from top tier VCs can lead to negative signaling
- Pivoting from software to hardware, B2B to B2C
Thejo Kote is now working on giving companies more financial control via his new company Airbase.