This is a huge threat to COSS if someone can rip off another open source company and get into YC with it 🤯
Bailey Pumfleet
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Bailey Pumfleet
@pumfleet
Co-founder of Cal.com
- I don't care about your resume. At @calcom, we hire differently. - Can you ship fast? - Are you hungry to learn? - Do you challenge the status quo? Our best engineers had never built a scheduling product before. Our most successful sales person had zero enterprise experience.
- Calendly is a sales company. The CEO is a salesperson, and 90% of their team are salespeople. They've been around for 12 years and haven't built any of the thousands of features that people ask for. @calcom is the opposite: a product company. We're 90% engineers. We've built
- I started @calcom at 17. No experience. No resources. Just a dream to make it happen. Here's how I built a product that powers millions of schedules daily: Everyone said I was too young. But being young was my superpower. I didn't know what was "impossible”. I had no
- Replying to @pumfleetFor YC to publicly support ripping off open source, it’s going to send out a very dangerous signal that this is acceptable…
- I started @calcom at 17 with zero business experience. Everyone said "you need experience first." You know what's funny? The biggest innovations often come from people who don't know what's "impossible." Sometimes not knowing the "right way" is your biggest advantage. Trust
- Tell me you don’t understand open source licensing without telling me you don’t understand open source licensingDon’t understand why people are dragging a new project when literally it’s open source Apache license and that’s *the reason* why open source is awesome
- Guys, I’ll die on this hill: Most companies are sales companies pretending to be product companies. 95% of our team at @calcom is product and engineering. Why? Because I'd rather build something incredible than hire 100 salespeople to sell something mediocre. Our users can
- Replying to @sa_han47Yep. The PR description reads: “Its ours now!”
- Just over a year ago, I moved to the US for Cal.com. And now, I finally got my green card approved 🥳 The EB-1A green card is a tough one to get, but I’m incredibly grateful to every one of the dozens of people that helped me get this.
- Very proud of the fact that we did this with a team of 25, didn’t blow through VC money and were profitablechat we cooked ✅ 420k MRR blaze it 🌿💨 from <$1M to $5M ARR in less than 22 months 🔥 🔜 next up: $690k MRR
- Replying to @rishi_raj_jain_Sure, but I don’t think a COSS rip-off is something that should get into YC and funded They literally opened the code base and renamed all references of Continue to PearAI. This is not innovation. This is stealing.
