Founder Interview Video
How Switchboard App Spent $8M Building a Cloud Coworking MVP with 5 Granted Patents Before Launch (Interview with CEO Amir Ashkenazi)
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Amir's Background
- 0:22Why Build a Remote Cloud Coworking Space
- 0:49What Switchboard Does and How It Works
- 1:15The Competitive Landscape for Collaboration Tools
- 2:19Cloud Browsers as a Technical Breakthrough
- 3:07How Switchboard Was Founded
- 6:23Single Founder Philosophy and First Partners
- 9:48Building the Team Remotely
- 12:32Beta Program and Learning Velocity
- 15:21Fundraising as Strategic Validation
- 18:02Defining Success in Beta: Love Metrics
- 18:37Famous Five: Books, CEOs, and Tools
- 19:28Loom CEO as Investor and Favorite Tool
- 20:01Closing Reflections on the Internet and Entrepreneurship