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Bailey Pumfleet

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
207 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And hence, he didn't really have the time to work on it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

So he was looking for somebody to actually take over.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And so what happened is, is like, I was one of the first people on the wait list for this, like, super excited about it, because this was just a genuine problem, which I'd faced.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And then basically, you know, he reached out, I replied back.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And then we like we started off literally just with pure engineering work, like I built the very first sort of

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Pre-MVP, you know, just connecting to Google Calendar, working out some availability, that kind of thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And then we decided to actually, you know, we work well together.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

You know, let's put an official arrangement in place.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Yeah, so it was literally just on a contractor basis.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

You know, he literally like paid me for like two weeks of developing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Uh, I think he'll be okay with it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

So it was, it was five, it was $5,000.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Um, I love this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Essentially, that was the idea.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

Yeah, he basically sent it out to everybody on the waitlist.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And I replied back saying, yeah, I'd love to take lead on this.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And, you know, first of all, it was just kind of work as a contractor as a trial.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And then, you know, let's see if we work well together before actually

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

And committing to incorporating with both of us as founders, which I think is something which we both took as a good learning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
18 year old raises $32m to build opensource version of Calendly

It worked well.