Amir Ashkenazi
- Founder and CEO at Switchboard App
GetLatka interview
How Switchboard App Spent $8M Building a Cloud Coworking MVP with 5 Granted Patents Before Launch (Interview with CEO Amir Ashkenazi)
Amir Ashkenazi (Founder and CEO of Switchboard App) spoke to Nathan Latka on May 25, 2022.
Switchboard App figures from the interview
- MVP Development Spend (2022)
- $8M
- Granted Patents (2022)
- 5
- Team Size (2022)
- 22
- Year Founded
- 2020
“Switchboard is a cloud coworking space. It's the next generation collaboration platform. It really allows people to do things together as if they were sitting side by side.”
“So we really started two years ago. It's very funny. I'm a I'm a guitar player. Not very talented, but really enjoy that. So with my guitar lessons moved to, online, it was really terrible. So you need tools like a metronome, you need notes, you need multiple videos, and all I got is the instructor's face. So that was the moment I said, okay, we need something else here.”
“In two years, we already have five granted patents for the work that we do on Oh, wow. It never happened to me. It usually takes five, six years. And the reason is that this is really difficult and really no one has done it to the level that we're doing it before.”
Bio
Amir Ashkenazi is the founder and CEO of Switchboard, his first remote-only company and is never going back. He is a six-time entrepreneur that pioneered comparison shopping (Shopping.com, IPO, acq. by eBay), programmatic advertising (Adap.tv. acq. by AOL) and AI assistants for meetings (Tookee, acq. by LogMeIn).