Jesse Zhang, a repeat founder, discusses his experience building startups, highlighting the importance of customer feedback and validating market problems.
Jesse Zhang, a repeat founder, discusses his experience building startups, highlighting the importance of customer feedback and validating market problems. He shares insights on investor selection, team building, and the journey to securing funding from top-tier investors for his latest venture, Decagon.
Honestly, I think it was just a very lucky situation. Like we it was kind of the right timing. We uh it was 2021. There were a lot of companies that were just growing super quickly and uh everyone was going really aggressive on growth. So we really hit it off with the team there and they fantastic team. And so yeah, we kind of got brought in to to build out, you know, the the social uh pillar of of the product and it was just a good fit and they they were at a place where they were willing to invest in kind of M&A and acquisitions and so it kind of just worked