Andrew Konya is the founder and CEO of Remesh, a web-based platform that lets institutions have live conversations with their audiences, or customers at scale, using AI to analyze and organize their responses in real-time. Since the days of that first investment, Remesh has gone on to raise $40M from investors like General Catalyst, Lionbird and Techstars. Before Remesh, there were real tradeoffs between the speed and scale of research vs. the depth and quality of response. Remesh delivers qualitative insights and quantitative scale, enabling organizations to gain fast, frequent, and efficient insights and make decisions with confidence.
In this episode, we get into:
How he decided his idea needed to be a business, not a non-profit
Power of telling people about your idea
Differences between building a technology vs. a business
The importance of getting feedback from the market and having flexibility as an early founder
How to identify and invent your own metrics of success
How to think about building a sustainable business
Why founders should actively seek out situations where they feel like an imposter
Selling a vision and team to early investors
The importance of getting to a quick no from early investors
How to create the right type of urgency for early investors
The office as a place to build culture and celebrate