Forbes’ Steve Bertoni sits down with Calendly founder Tope Awotona to talk about the company’s founding, learning from past failures, and insights on what work meetings in a post-covid world may look like.

Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of scheduling software company Calendly. Awotona, a former salesman for tech firms including EMC (now Dell EMC), founded Calendly out of his own frustration with the back-and-forth emails required to schedule meetings. He bootstrapped Calendly for years before taking on a $350 million investment in 2021 that valued the firm at $3 billion.

0:00 Introducing Tope Awotona & Steve Bertoni
0:26 The Calendly Origin Story
2:52 Learning From Failures
3:59 Awotona's Marketing Secret
5:18 The Future Of Work
6:38 How Software Can Solve Scheduling Problems
7:40 Most Overhyped And Undervalued In Tech

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