Founder Interview Video
How Trunk Technologies Raised $3.25M from Andreessen Horowitz to Help Engineers Land Code Faster (Interview with Cofounder Eli Schleifer)
Chapters
- 0:00Introduction and Guest Background
- 0:17What Is Trunk and Who Is the Customer
- 1:06The Problem at Uber and the Origin of Trunk
- 1:39What Google Got Right About Dev Tools
- 2:09Building Dev Tools as a Product, Not Firefighting
- 2:58First Product: Trunk Check Universal Linter
- 4:28Funding: $3.25M from Andreessen Horowitz
- 4:43Why Raise VC Instead of Preselling Customers
- 6:22Previous Company Directr and Sale to YouTube
- 6:56What the Raise Funds: First Two to Three Products
- 7:25Team Size and Hiring Plan
- 8:41Building the Wait List: Discord, Slack and the C++ Community
- 10:00Round Terms, Dilution and Four Equal Cofounders
- 11:33Pricing Philosophy and Go-to-Market Approach
- 12:39Famous Five: Books, Sleep, and Life Lessons