Henry Shapiro

Currently, right now, we're a free product.

Yeah, we're pre-monetization.

We're being used, as I mentioned, across a little over 6,000 companies today, meaning we have anywhere from several to dozens to hundreds of users inside of these companies, and we're spreading pretty quickly.

It's a great question.

So I think the first thing is, and thanks for having me, by the way.

Of course.

The first thing is, I think we really, when we started the company, our intention was not, hey, let's go out and build a better calendar, or let's go out and build a better scheduling service.

We came out of, obviously, New Relic and had experienced the pain firsthand of being busy middle managers who were

constantly just trying to grapple to get every last little bit of time that we could for our priorities and constantly running into that challenge of the calendar sort of feeling like a debt you have to pay down every week instead of an actual reflection of the work you need to get done.

And so we actually came at this problem being sort of dev and monitoring nerds, not even thinking about the calendar.

Initially, we only were thinking about this problem of how do you get people and teams focused on the right stuff?

And I think because we asked that question first, instead of asking the question of like, well, the calendar sucks, let's build a new calendar or scheduling sucks, let's build a better scheduler.

We really tried to hone in on like the workflows and automation that people need.

And we really leaned into the existing platforms like Google Calendar, like Calendly instead.

And so I think part of what makes us sticky is

We're not asking people to go out and adopt an entirely new calendar service or platform.

We're not going out and asking people to adopt, in many cases, even an entirely new task manager.

We're acting as sort of a hub for intelligently scheduling the time that you need and keeping it flexible so that you're sort of able to accommodate other types of commitments.

I think the other thing that's a little different about how we approach this space that kind of gets into some of the, you know, call it the secret sauce of the product is, you know, we recognize that time blocking was one of those things that like, if it was just as easy as me going on my calendar Sunday night and blocking out every single event and putting the word busy on it, there probably wouldn't be much software or much opportunity around this space.

There's kind of two problems that people run into.