How Did You Decide to Start Something New?

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Richard White, the serial entrepreneur behind Uservoice and Fathom.video. Richard is a design engineer and product visionary who has been in the first YC batch with Justin Khan and Emmett Shear for Kiko (YC S05) and most recently came back to the YC W21 to see how startup kids are doing the tricks today.   

00:00​​ Intro 

00:51​ Who is Richard White 

03:40 The power of cold emails 

05:09 Kiko (YC S05) 

08:53 The UserVoice journey 

12:09 Traction and funding 

16:09 UserVoice today 

$18:16 Starting Fathom 

22:28 The Fathom product 

27:35 Fathom customer profile 

30:27 Fathom in remote orgs 

32:03 Richard's own use of Fathom 

33:57 Fathom integrations 

36:14 Zoom Marketplace + platform risk $

39:20 Going through YC (again) 

42:57 Fathom seed round 

46:11 The fun of fundraising 

47:28 Vision for Fathom