FF 08: Pierre Valade, CEO @ Sunrise on Being Acquired By Microsoft for $100m and Building Beautiful Products

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Pierre Valade is Co-Founder and CEO @ Sunrise, the beautiful calendar app, acquired by Microsoft for $100m in February 2015, where he now works on Outlook Mobile for Microsoft. Prior to Sunrise, Pierre worked as a UX designer @ Foursquare following a successful hackathon in which he built an app in 6 hours, called Agora. Agora impressed Foursquare Founder, Dennis Crowley to the extent that Pierre was hired in the same month. As a result of Pierre's success he was named on the Innovators Under 35.

In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

• How Pierre came up with the idea for Sunrise?

• What made Sunrise standout above all calendar apps as the best calendar?

• What features are most requested by Sunrise users?

• How was the design process in altering the design from a iPhone to a Apple Watch?

• What was Pierre and Sunrise approach to testing and iterating products?

• Having raised VC funding prior to acquisition, how did Pierre meet his initial investors, what was his fundraising experience like? Were there any surprises or challenges?

• How did the Microsoft Acquisition come about? How has Pierre's role and Sunrise changed since the acquisition?

Items Mentioned In Today's Episode:

Pierre's Fave Book: Zero To One: Peter Thiel

Pierre Most Impactful Purchase: iPhone 6

Pierre's Fave Newsletter or Blog: Stratechery by Ben Thompson


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