Railsware
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Calendly's first 10 users came through its contract development firm
“The first 10 users were actually customer success agents at a company in an educate, in the education space that contracted with the same firm That Tope was using to build Calendly. So he really found his first set of users through the firm that he was using t…”
Awotona: Dev shop Railsware rejected equity-only compensation for building Calendly's MVP
“One of the things I tried to propose was, hey, why don't I just give you a cut of the equity and you can work for free but even they weren't willing to take that risk.”
Awotona convinced Calendly's external development agency to work on credit
“Funded it myself and ran out of money. And then I convinced Railsware to work for, not work for free, but to work with understanding that when I raised money, I would pay them back. So I was able to get them to work on credit.”