We designed PlanGrid to be valuable for everyone in the construction industry, from project executives to electricians, ensuring it met the needs of all users.

Initially, PlanGrid started as a fun project. We didn't realize it could become a business until we sold our first million dollars without a sales team.

A good example of founder-market fit is PlanGrid, where the founders had relevant experience in the construction industry and the technical skills to build the product.

We initially built Linear for ourselves, focusing on creating a tool that we would want to use daily, which helped us define our product's features.

My first job out of school was as a construction engineer, where I was tasked with quality control on the job site, checking specifications and blueprints.

I was initially hesitant about the project because I was the engineer among designers, and I knew that projects can easily suffer from scope creep.

While waiting for the app approval, I collaborated with a friend to create a tool for collecting things online, which eventually evolved into Pinterest. In the early days of Pinterest, we thought it would be cool to create a tool for ourselves to collect things, which we believed could also help others see the world differently.

We wanted to create a project management tool that is not only functional but also exciting, breaking the mold of traditional tools that users find boring.

In college, I wanted to create products that connected me with the community around me, which led to the realization that I needed to build software that others would use too.