Post on 06-Aug-2015
TJ Bearse(tjbears)
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History
● Jan ‘11: Fog Creek○ Creators of S.O., Kiln
● Sep ‘11: Launch at Techcrunch Disrupt○ Web and iOS
● Mid ‘12: Android○ 500k users
● Jul ‘14: Trello Inc.○ CEO Michael Pryor○ 4.75m users
Financial Info
● Freemium service:○ Business class○ Trello Gold
● $10.3m series A funding○ Spark Capital
■ Twitter, Tumbler, Stack Exchange○ Index Ventures
■ SoundCloud, Etsy, Skype
What’s Hot?: Integrations/Extensions
Secret Sauce
Secret Sauce: Non-Technical Users
Interesting Tidbit: Taco
Prediction
● From Joel Splosky’s blog:○ “Get Big Fast” not “Ben and Jerry’s”○ Trello is free○ API and plug-in are priority
● ‘14: Brian Cervino supports 4m users(by himself)○ only 300 cases a week