Tope Awotona
- Founder and CEO at Calendly
GetLatka interview
How Calendly Reached 4 Million Monthly Users and a $3 Billion Valuation with $70M Revenue (Interview with Founder and CEO Tope Awotona)
Tope Awotona (Founder and CEO of Calendly) spoke to Nathan Latka on January 26, 2021.
Calendly figures from the interview
- Revenue
- $70M
- Valuation
- $3B+
- Monthly Active Users
- 4,000,000
- Total Funding
- $350.6M
- Team Size
- 80
“Calendly is a platform that helps to schedule meetings and also powers meeting workflows. So what that means is we eliminate the back and forth of scheduling instead of sending four or five emails to get a meeting scheduled we help you get that done in one interaction.”
“About 4,000,000 people use the app on a monthly basis and our customers range from individuals to small teams to large enterprises like Zillow, Zendesk and Marketo.”
“I took every single dollar that I ever made all my savings all my retirement money I took all of that and I invested it into Calendly over time after we built the MVP I needed additional funds to continue to grow the product and continue to serve our customers.”
Bio
Calendly is the fastest growing company in scheduling automation, serving millions with simple, yet powerful software to schedule meetings without the back-and-forth emails.