Bio
David Okuniev is the co-founder of Typeform and the lead behind VideoAsk, Typeform's async video interaction product launched in beta in 2019. Okuniev co-founded Typeform in 2012 alongside his co-founder Robert, bootstrapping the company before raising a total of $50 million in outside capital, including a Series B from General Atlantic in 2017 at a valuation of approximately $300 million. He served as CEO of Typeform before stepping down from that role roughly two years prior to this interview, with Robert also subsequently stepping back from the CEO position, though both remain active in the company — Robert at the board level and Okuniev deeply embedded in product design, product management, and engineering. By the time of the interview, Typeform had surpassed 100,000 paying customers and was generating approximately $40 million in annualized revenue, growing around 50% year-over-year, with the company holding roughly as much cash in the bank as it had raised in capital. Okuniev launched VideoAsk as a paid product in 2020, reaching $1.4 million ARR in its first year, and projected a 3x or more increase by end of 2021. He described himself as fundamentally a builder who is most motivated when close to customers and writing or reviewing code, and noted he was 44 years old at the time of the interview, married with three children.