Met my co-founders by meeting my customers
by JohnToday, May 9th is a very interesting day. I met my co-founders, Vivek & Sumana during an interview with a customer demo.
Trainn is my second startup. I previously built and sold a company to acquisition. I started Trainn as a side project while working on a day job. One of the first checklist I had is to validate market size before building anything. As an exercise to this, I set myself a goal to personally interview 50 people who I have never met in my life, but could become potential users of the product.
One of the potential customer happened to get on a call with another team who are exactly building the same idea of Trainn. He also mentioned that they are in the same city where I am, and I should connect with them.
I was super excited at the same time puzzled to know another team working on the same idea and picked the same problem. We met over zoom calls, had hours and hours of discussions and finally we decided to form a company together after working for some weeks.
What I love about this is that, both my co-founders Vivek & Sumana had the same priority to talk to customers first before doing anything. Customer centric product has been in our DNA right from day 1 and I am super proud and excited about this. 🤩
