You can't get comfortable when tech changes so fast. To avoid complacency, we frame ourselves as completely irrelevant in the big picture. Google or Microsoft could crush us tomorrow if they wanted to. Easily. That mindset keeps us hungry. Keeps us building. We celebrate our

Building a great product = 10% Getting people to use it = 90%. The "if we build it, they will come" way of thinking won’t get you far. For Cal.com’s first customers, I literally DM'd CEOs on Twitter. "Hey, you should try Cal.com." I closed deals by showing

hey 👋 the “large open source Next.js application” is us 😍🥰

Being everything to everybody… It’s a vicious trap. When we started Cal.com, income jumped around because I was chasing one-off deals instead of recurring problems. Big mistake. I had to take a step back and make a few crucial changes. So instead of building custom features

As a founder, you're learning entirely new concepts all the time. What takes someone a lifetime to master, you need to pick up as one of ten skills. I never studied these, but I had to learn them: 1. Finance (treasury management) 2. Sales (never took a single business class)

Successful people get treated differently. But the lucky ones still have friends who treat them as just another dude.

“so you have raised $100 Million” “yes, dave” “and your ARR is basically just the interest you get from keeping the money sitting in the bank” “thats correct, dave”

If you don't build for your future customers, you won't grow into a truly huge company. Look at every large company. They go multi-product, multi-strategy. Deel started with hiring contractors. Now they do immigration services, IT, and full HR systems. Service-based

If I had to strip our product down to its pure essence… One feature remains: opt-in bookings. Instead of every meeting request automatically appearing on your calendar, you can review the details first. Then accept or reject it. Since day one, that's been one of my favorite

Origin UI is joining Cal.com It’s now coss.com, a more ambitious project, set to become the best infrastructure for the web We’re already working on the new UI library that will power the platform and remain open to everyone building great UIs Exciting times for open source!

Your productivity stack will tell you everything you need to know about: 1. Your procrastination 2. Your decision paralysis Your Notion setup and Todoist integrations don't lie. If you're spending more time organizing tasks than completing them, you're not optimizing. You're

Everybody says do things that don't scale. I say do things that scale. What I'm proud of in our product is that we haven't listened to every customer's random request. We haven't built every single thing some high-paying customer asked for. Because of that, everything in the

What do founders actually get paid the big bucks for? Honestly? Intuition.  A lot of what I do comes down to that. Your intuition and vision drive the product. You can hire PMs, but you're the one who decides what goes into the product. On paper, founders are a little bit

The first hour of your day will tell you everything you need to know about: 1. How serious you are about your goals 2. Whether you're reacting or creating Your mornings don't lie. I used to waste mine checking my emails and Slack. Then I learned that the first 40 minutes

If you like open source you have to watch this announcement by cofounder Bailey Pumfleet

New blog up about how we'll take learnings from Cal.com and apply them to coss.com engineering. cal.com/blog/engineeri…

First we released our own font Now we’re releasing our own UI library based off the Cal.com design system

Successful founders: 1. Post-it notes 2. Calendar Struggling founders: 1. 47-step productivity system 2. Color-coded tags I don’t make the rules.

Behind the scenes of my very clearly professional setup I used to record this vid

If I want to learn something new, I place myself in the situation and work backwards. That's where AI comes in. I tell it: ‘’Here is the end goal. Tell me everything I need to know.’’ Recently, I wanted to self-manage our corporate treasury because our bank was charging too