Egil Østhus
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as you grow the company, as you grow the product, you will build a stronger and stronger foundation and it will start tackling in the next challenge and the next challenge. But I think it's important to really have in mind that there is something that we just need to accept. It's not there. It's not good enough.
as you grow the company, as you grow the product, you will build a stronger and stronger foundation and it will start tackling in the next challenge and the next challenge. But I think it's important to really have in mind that there is something that we just need to accept. It's not there. It's not good enough.
as you grow the company, as you grow the product, you will build a stronger and stronger foundation and it will start tackling in the next challenge and the next challenge. But I think it's important to really have in mind that there is something that we just need to accept. It's not there. It's not good enough.
I would love it to be better, but it's just not time and place to really go by and fix those challenges. And there are certain things that really needs to be done. And we decided very early to focus on, okay, we need to have a proper process on how we design, kind of what features do we put into the product and how do we do that?
I would love it to be better, but it's just not time and place to really go by and fix those challenges. And there are certain things that really needs to be done. And we decided very early to focus on, okay, we need to have a proper process on how we design, kind of what features do we put into the product and how do we do that?
I would love it to be better, but it's just not time and place to really go by and fix those challenges. And there are certain things that really needs to be done. And we decided very early to focus on, okay, we need to have a proper process on how we design, kind of what features do we put into the product and how do we do that?
Because we think that's going to be fundamental to how we are creating a successful product. that was the number one and then we started to move into okay how do we sell this product because for us we are here for business obviously so to really understand the commercial side of of the open source model and really how do we kind of monetize the product that was very very big
Because we think that's going to be fundamental to how we are creating a successful product. that was the number one and then we started to move into okay how do we sell this product because for us we are here for business obviously so to really understand the commercial side of of the open source model and really how do we kind of monetize the product that was very very big
Because we think that's going to be fundamental to how we are creating a successful product. that was the number one and then we started to move into okay how do we sell this product because for us we are here for business obviously so to really understand the commercial side of of the open source model and really how do we kind of monetize the product that was very very big
You know, it's this interesting balance between you want the structure, but you also want it to be unstructured because you want to be lean and you want to move quickly. I don't think there is an easy answer to this. I think most people with struggle, you just need to kind of go along the way and sort of balance this.
You know, it's this interesting balance between you want the structure, but you also want it to be unstructured because you want to be lean and you want to move quickly. I don't think there is an easy answer to this. I think most people with struggle, you just need to kind of go along the way and sort of balance this.
You know, it's this interesting balance between you want the structure, but you also want it to be unstructured because you want to be lean and you want to move quickly. I don't think there is an easy answer to this. I think most people with struggle, you just need to kind of go along the way and sort of balance this.
Sometimes you need to be very focused and sometimes you need to put down the structure and sometimes you need to allow, I wouldn't say chaos, but sort of unstructured and a bit more hectic type of environment.
Sometimes you need to be very focused and sometimes you need to put down the structure and sometimes you need to allow, I wouldn't say chaos, but sort of unstructured and a bit more hectic type of environment.
Sometimes you need to be very focused and sometimes you need to put down the structure and sometimes you need to allow, I wouldn't say chaos, but sort of unstructured and a bit more hectic type of environment.
What I'm really, really, really proud of is the fact that we are a very small company. We are already competing with our major guerrilla competitors and we are winning deals with all of them. That is so cool. And that comes because we have an amazing team. We have an amazing product. We have customers coming back and saying, this is so beautiful, so easy to use.
What I'm really, really, really proud of is the fact that we are a very small company. We are already competing with our major guerrilla competitors and we are winning deals with all of them. That is so cool. And that comes because we have an amazing team. We have an amazing product. We have customers coming back and saying, this is so beautiful, so easy to use.
What I'm really, really, really proud of is the fact that we are a very small company. We are already competing with our major guerrilla competitors and we are winning deals with all of them. That is so cool. And that comes because we have an amazing team. We have an amazing product. We have customers coming back and saying, this is so beautiful, so easy to use.
It really solves this and that pain. And that makes me very proud. It makes me proud that there is like so 30 of us coming to work every day and they're working so hard. They're working extra hours. They're really so obsessed of really making this happen.
It really solves this and that pain. And that makes me very proud. It makes me proud that there is like so 30 of us coming to work every day and they're working so hard. They're working extra hours. They're really so obsessed of really making this happen.