Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Tito Goldstein

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
184 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

When it was just me and Arjun tinkering on ideas in a cafe or spending nights and weekends building and designing and thinking of what this could be, I don't think either one of us could have pictured this.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

We probably had an inkling of

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

of this somewhere in the back of our heads, but we'd never done it as first time founders.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

It didn't seem natural.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

But now sitting in the office, looking around, there are people here who are also spending their nights and weekends for this cause, for this mission, to build the absolute cutting edge, amazing technology for folks who have never seen it before.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

And they get excited when we deploy to a customer.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

So I think ultimately it does come back to those customers, those users, so that we can get an email

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

from a nurse who used our instant pay product and was able to pay her mortgage because of it.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

We can get a text message from a client or WhatsApp saying, hey, I just unlocked this entirely new workflow that's completely changing my business and allowing me to give more flexibility, more resources to my staff.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

So those are the things that are most exciting.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

They're little tiny moments.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

As you grow, you scale, the volume of them helps you lean into that optimistic side and drive not from maybe pessimism, but from that ambition that you can do even more.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

One thing, especially early on, a mistake we potentially made was chasing some of the whales in terms of customers.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

I think customers that were succeeding on the platform were loving it, were bringing in new customers, and they honestly didn't need to influence our roadmap that much.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

And I think at one point,

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

When we moved over to enterprise, that first shift, there was a lot of friction there for us to be dealing with a massive organization rather than a small group similar to us.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

And so we matured to get there.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
S12 Bonus: Arjun & Tito, Teambridge

But I think we probably made that jump early.