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Cal.com is an open-source scheduling infrastructure company founded in 2021 and headquartered online, positioning itself as the foundational layer for scheduling across consumer and enterprise use cases. The company launched its brand on September 15, 2021, and raised a $25 million Series A in April 2022 led by Seven Seven Six, bringing total funding to $32.4 million across its seed and Series A rounds. As of May 2022, Cal.com reported approximately $15,000 in monthly recurring revenue from a base of roughly 25,000 to 30,000 users, with a paid conversion rate of approximately 10 percent. The company charges $12 per month for its SaaS product and offers a free tier, while actively building out an enterprise offering it expects to drive the bulk of future revenue growth. Co-founder Bailey Pumfleet, who was 18 at the time of the interview, wrote the first line of code at age 17 and built the initial MVP in roughly three weeks. He and his co-founder Peer together retain approximately 60 percent ownership of the company. The team is approximately 90 percent engineering, with fixed pay bands across all geographies.

Calendly is a scheduling automation platform founded in 2013 by Tope Awotona, who serves as CEO. The product eliminates the back-and-forth of meeting coordination by allowing users to schedule in a single interaction, and it also powers downstream meeting workflows including team routing, reminder delivery, and CRM updates. As of early 2021, approximately 4 million people used the app on a monthly basis, with customers ranging from individual professionals to large enterprises such as Zillow, Zendesk, and Marketo. The company generated approximately $70 million in revenue in the year prior to its January 2021 Series B, which valued Calendly at more than $3 billion. That round raised $350 million led by OpenView Venture Partners and Iconiq Capital, bringing total funding to roughly $350.6 million. Awotona bootstrapped the company with his personal savings before raising a seed round in 2014 from Atlanta Ventures and OpenView Ventures, and the Series B represented the first significant outside capital since that seed. At the time of the interview, Calendly employed approximately 80 people in total: 70 based in the United States and 10 from its technical partner Railsware, which has worked with the company since 2013. The company was six years into operations and described rapid growth in both its product and headcount as its primary operational challenge.