NEXT GEN TECH – Scale By Innovating Your Tech with David Baghdasaryan, Co-Founder & CEO of Krisp, Part 2
Episode Summary Krisp has grown significantly throughout COVID and beyond. They saw a huge market opportunity with call centers where the issue of noise cancellation is truly prevalent and expensive, which helped them grow through word of mouth. Throughout this growth spurt they’ve been able to add a plethora of new features, and now they’re […]
TAKING THE RISK – Choosing Entrepreneurship Over Millions With Davit Baghdasaryan, CEO of Krisp, Part 1
Episode Summary Davit’s background is in engineering. If you asked Davit if he plans to become an entrepreneur a year prior to founding Krisp, he would have said – no way. But when he took the plunge, it didn’t take long for him to fall in love with it and unlock his hidden calling.
BUILDING HUGE PLATFORMS – How To Approach Building the Next Salesforce or Airtable with Eric Weiss – Bonus Episode
Episode Summary During those two episodes, Eric and Jan discussed what it takes to truly grow a platform business. Many founders want to go after a broad market and grow their company into an industry staple. As a startup, the likelihood that you’ll succeed increases if you find a narrow market and focus on an […]
SCALE BY INNOVATING – How To Build a Platform That Wins with Jan Arendtsz, Founder of Celigo, Part 2
Episode Summary In the previous part we established the story of how Celigo had to make some hard decisions that were ultimately for the best. In more recent history, they had to pivot to a new product even after they found what was supposedly working. Jan’s reason is simple – the Total Addressable Market(TAM) was […]
FROM CONSULTING TO SaaS – Pivoting From Service To Software with the Founder of Celigo, Jan Arendtsz, Part 1
Episode Summary Jan’s path to entrepreneurship began with him working as a software engineer for a couple of years and quickly realizing that it’s not his true calling. He chose to stick with it for a while to build a solid technical background, after which he joined a consulting firm to learn a bit more […]
ARTICULATE YOUR VISION – AI is Disrupting How We Build UI with Eric Weiss – Bonus Episode
Episode Summary AI is currently disrupting how we approach building UI by increasing the speed at which we’re able to articulate an idea and build the first model. These prototypes also enable us to get to the feedback stages much earlier in the process and with much less waste.
THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE GAP – Discussing The Problem With AI Tools w/ Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, Part 2
Episode Summary Eric and Guillermo discuss the benefits of using AI as part of the support structure for your SaaS product. Guillermo makes a great point that AI is more trustworthy when it comes to data privacy, however, AI does hallucinate from time to time and requires monitoring. Open source has become standard practice in […]
DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY + AI – How AI is Changing App Development with Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, Part 1
Episode Summary At the start of his career, Guillermo taught himself Javascript which led him to receive international job offers at the age of 17. He quickly realized that his true passion was in building companies, more specifically creating tools that increase productivity for developers. Guillermo chose to focus on Javascript due the web apps […]
BUILD YOUR PRODUCT RIGHT – How To Prioritise The Right Things with Eric Weiss – Bonus Episode
Episode Summary Eric speaks on how to prioritise the right things when building your product. Although user experience, support and marketing will grow your business, you won’t see profitable outcomes unless your product solves a real problem. Quality of life improvements are important, but they aren’t the end all and be all of product development. […]
BUILD YOUR MARKETING PRODUCT – Finding Product-Market Fit Through Product-Led Growth with the CEO of Funnelytics, Mikael Dia, Pt. 2
Episode Summary An extremely difficult puzzle that any SaaS company has to solve is finding product-market fit. To better understand their market and generate brand awareness, Funnelytics released their mapping tool for free, which turned out to be a double edged sword. The good part is that they grew like wildfire through word of mouth […]