Uncovering Needs From Revel to Athena and Beyond

What this short covers

Lisa Falzone shares her journey as a repeat tech founder, including the emotional highs and lows of entrepreneurship such as experiencing severe burnout despite scaling her company to a $500M valuation. She also discusses her disciplined approach to identifying market needs and building solutions like Athena Security to address them.

Transcript

Like I would have never just randomly talked to restaurant owners or heads of security, but through doing like one the ordering app with Rebel, it got me out talking to restaurant owners. So, and then two with with uh Athena with the visualite weapon detection, it got me out talking to heads of security to really find out what they really need. And then don't be afraid to pivot. I think be humble enough to pivot. Sometimes entrepreneurs fail because they're just stuck to one idea.

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