Tools I Use Daily With Interesting Founding Stories
I love great stories behind great tools, products, or meals.
1. Slack
It was an internal communications app that was created while building Glitch. I encourage listening to the story in the Master of Scale podcast.
2. Zoom
"I detested those rides and used to imagine other ways I could visit my girlfriend without traveling — those daydreams eventually became the basis for Zoom," Eric said.
While at Cisco, he talked to clients and realized that there should be a better product to conduct video conf meetings. He left Cisco to start Zoom.
3. Notion
4. Loom
And Loom was born.
5. Grammarly
Grammarly's success story has been eight years in the making.
The initial product was sold to universities to help English language learners write better. They then realized that half their users were outside of academia.
They pivoted from the enterprise model to the consumer model.
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