Tag: Founder Story

After selling his first startup to Salesforce when he was 21, Howie Liu could have focused his efforts on any number of subjects. Instead, he decided start Airtable, a collaboration platform that essentially modernizes one of the least sexy products around: spreadsheets.

DataDome Duo Benjamin Fabre and Benjamin Barrier chat about bot detection, risk detection, and being three-time serial entrepreneurs.

How open source can be a resource for startups.

In my career as an entrepreneur, I’ve had the opportunity to close the first deal at three different startups. There is no better feeling than when a paying customer has validated your concept and recognized your product value. That first deal has the potential to spring your company to the next 10 deals that can set your business scaling to the stratosphere. Within those first few deals lie the clues to a successful business or the pitfalls to your startup.

As the CEO and co-founder of Peanut, a social networking app for new mothers, Michelle Kennedy knows a thing or two about growing a company from scratch.

“It’s got to be a sickness or in my DNA.” That’s how Arth Labs Co-founder and CEO Gautam Ivatury describes his penchant for launching startups.

At Startup Day in New York City, COO—and former head of engineering—Dustin Lucien looked back on the initial years of Betterment and the startup’s technical, operational, and cultural hits and misses.

Sometimes going first can have its advantages. Pi, a tech startup based in San Bruno, California that produces wireless charging devices, won the grand prize at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2017. The first of the 22 competitors to give their presentation, Pi impressed two rounds of judges with their device’s ability to charge up to four phones at full speed, as long as they are located within a foot of Pi’s patented power platform.

We spoke to Will Bentinck about recruitment, and specifically about what it is that startups should avoid doing when hiring developers. Right off the bat, he gave us five big things.

AWS startup customer Once is a dating app with a unique approach – users get one handpicked match every day at noon. This week in AWS Startup Stories* we talked to Clémentine Lalande, COO, and CFO of Once–the ‘slow dating’ app. Clémentine is an entrepreneur who has helped to scale several social and commercial ventures […]