175 - How The Things You Do Early Stage Scale As You Grow (Krish Ramineni, Co-Founder and CEO at Fireflies)

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Krish Ramineni is Co-Founder and CEO at Fireflies.ai and he joined me in this episode to dig into growing from Seed to Series A, top focus areas for growth, their PLG approach from the early days, differentiation in a crowded space, and more.

About Fireflies:

• Founded: 2016
• Funding: Series A ($19M total)
• Description: Automate your meeting notes. Transcribe, summarize, search, and analyze voice conversations.

In this episode:

The early days of Fireflies.ai (Seed stage) - who was on the team, what was your GTM strategy;

What were the high points and what were the struggles at Seed stage;

How do you differentiate from other players in a crowded space (what if your competition can build a better product with better features);

Top 3 things that you focused on to get you from Seed to Series A;

Why is marketing important;

How do you balance talking about the problem (education) vs. talking about your solution with your marketing content;

Why do you think marketing can be so misunderstood;

AMA - Krish asks me his burning question.

You can find Krish on LinkedIn: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/krishramineni/

Learn more about Fireflies: https://fireflies.ai/

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