Jeremy Bell

Senior Engineering Manager, Apple · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jeremy Bell is best known as the founder and CEO of Mayday, an AI-assisted calendar application that raised over $3 million before being acquired by Apple in 2024. Previously, he was a partner at digital experience agency Teehan+Lax, co-founded Wattage, and served as VP of Design at Connected Lab.

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Prediction Not checkable as stated

Bell: Manual social listening outreach will not scale much longer

“It doesn't scale. Like, I don't think this will, you know, work for that much longer.”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 6:14 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

Disclosure

Mayday closed a $3M seed funding round in late 2021

“We did, we have raised funds. We just actually closed a seed round. So I raised a three million dollar seed round that we closed just at the end of last year, so right, right before the holidays we close that that round.”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 7:41 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

Disclosure

Bell: Mayday will not copy Superhuman's paid-only access model

“I do know that it won't just be, you have to pay to get in period. So we're not going to go down the path like a superhuman. Like it won't be like that.”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 15:43 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

Assertion Not checkable as stated

Mayday has tens of thousands of users on its beta waitlist

“We've got tens of thousands.”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 5:28 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

What-if

Jeremy Bell: Moving to Silicon Valley earlier would have benefited my career

“I probably, when I was younger, would have probably benefited from just going west and getting into the Silicon Valley scene a lot sooner than I did later.”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 16:56 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

Disclosure

Bell: Mayday raised around $750,000 USD in pre-seed funding

“The total amount in US was about 750, I think.”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 9:50 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

Disclosure

Bell: First startup sale to Precision Nutrition returned capital without major windfall

“I raised a bit of money and then ended up exiting on that one and sold it to a company called precision nutrition made, you know, basically made all of our existing investors and myself like whole. So it wasn't like a huge liquidity event by any stretch enough…”

Jeremy Bell May 22, 2022 ▶ 11:00 How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool	May 22, 2022	10m

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