About
I'm a University of Waterloo Engineering grad who has always loved building both hardware and software. This enthusiasm brought me to YC where I funnelled everything I had into starting Vidyard. Vidyard is now a global business with over 5000 customers. I'm still engaged in product and can't wait to show you what we're working on next. In parallel, I love helping early stage founders via my work with Garage Capital. As a general partner, I've invested in over 150 companies (12 and counting are "Unicorns").
Work
Founder & Leadership at Vidyard
Maker History
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How are you looking to get your first customers?
When we launched Vidyard, our most important activity was to talk with potential customers and translate those conversations into trials and eventually, sales. Personalized cold emails were my only productive channel for growth. From there, we learned the nuances of messaging, demand gen, social and inbound marketing. Those channels took a long time to be productive and so without outbound, we would have failed. How are you finding / acquiring your first paying customers? What's the approach? P.S. Implementing personalized outbound is still a huge challenge for many founders and sellers today, so we re launching something in this space next week!
AMA - Co-Founder / CEO of Vidyard and GP of Garage Capital
Hey Product Hunt! I m Michael Litt, Co-founder of Vidyard (Y Combinator S11) where we help sales teams engage customers with video, digital sales rooms and other products (launching very soon). We re a global business with over 5000 customers and have raised over $75M to date. I m also a GP at Garage Capital, where we ve invested in > 150 startups (12 unicorns) since 2013. I ve been learning and operating in tech & startups as a founder for over 10 years. My passion is helping builders and founders find their footing and so I m looking forward to providing perspective and lessons learned with the community! I ll be dropping by to answer all questions over the next few days and so make sure you drop your questions in asap. Ask me anything!
Which was the first operating system you used?
I used Windows XP. I'm curious to know about yours.