Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast
Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast
Sandhya Hegde, Unusual Ventures
Coda's Shishir Mehrotra on reinventing team collaboration with AI
47 minutes Posted Dec 10, 2023 at 11:00 am.
Preview: Coming up with product insights
Shishir’s experience at YouTube
YoutTube Shorts versus Tiktok
Product-market fit is not a binary
The founding insight behind Coda
Positioning Coda against incumbent products
Coda’s alpha launch
PMF scores versus disappointment scores
Shishir’s approach to product rituals
The launch of Coda 4.0
Advice for new founders in enterprise productivity
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In this episode, Sandhya Hegde chats with Shishir Mehrotra, CEO and co-founder of Coda.
Coda is a collaborative workspace that brings together teams and tools to create organized workflows in docs. Started in 2014, Coda serves over 80% of the Fortune 100. Last valued at $1.4B,  Coda is used by over 25,000 teams including ones at Figma, The New York Times, Square, Doordash, and Toast. 
Sandhya Hegde is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading investments in modern SaaS companies with a focus on AI. Previously an early executive at Amplitude, Sandhya is a product-led growth (PLG) coach and mentor. She can be reached at [email protected] and 
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Shishir Mehrotra is the CEO and co-founder of Coda. Prior to Coda, Shishir was the Vice President of Product, Engineering, and UX at YouTube. 
Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital firm designed from the ground up to give a distinct advantage to founders building the next generation of software companies. Unusual has invested in category-defining companies like Webflow, Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Robinhood, and Harness. Learn more about us at https://www.unusual.vc/.
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