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