TJ Bearse - Trello

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