Forbes’ Steve Bertoni sits down with Calendly founder Tope Awotona to talk about the company’s founding, learning from past failures, and insights on what work meetings in a post-covid world may look like.
Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly. Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings. He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.
0:00 Introducing Tope Awotona & Steve Bertoni
0:26 The Calendly Origin Story
2:52 Learning From Failures
3:59 Awotona's Marketing Secret
5:18 The Future Of Work
6:38 How Software Can Solve Scheduling Problems
7:40 Most Overhyped And Undervalued In Tech
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Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly. Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings. He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.
0:00 Introducing Tope Awotona & Steve Bertoni
0:26 The Calendly Origin Story
2:52 Learning From Failures
3:59 Awotona's Marketing Secret
5:18 The Future Of Work
6:38 How Software Can Solve Scheduling Problems
7:40 Most Overhyped And Undervalued In Tech
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Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst How fantastic is this video to learn about the experience of Founder Topo Awetona founding Calendly, and all the problems and satisfactions on the way since then up to now. Learning from others help us to understand our own successes and failures which are unavoidable when we work in new endeavours. Watch and enjoy.