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As part of the Founder Institute’s ongoing series of free online startup events for entrepreneurs practicing social distancing, we were pleased to welcome Sam Udotong of Fireflies.ai on Thursday, April 21st (4pm PDT) for a live, interactive webinar to learn how to get from 0 to 1 and build a remote team as a scrappy founder.

Event descriptionLooking to build a team and monetize a product while on a Coronavirus budget? Learn how to manage a strong and remote team as well as find product-market fit in this startup webinar. Sam is a quintessentially scrappy founder who turned down Harvard Business School to build a startup while living below the poverty line. Today Udotong manages a team that operates out of 3 continents and raised $5 million in seed funding in late 2019.

About Sam Udotong

A full-stack engineer and guest lecturer for Stanford’s introductory AI classes, Sam looks to create change in everyday life. He is an expert in deploying deep learning in large scale projects, from training autonomous drones while president of MIT’s UAV team to optimizing satellite maintenance systems at Boeing and Lockheed Martin. At MIT he studied computer science and aerospace engineering. 

Full webinar replay


Webinar Highlights

What is Fireflies.ai?

How Fireflies.ai got to revenue ASAP

How bootstrapping impacted Fireflies.ai

Why the team was built remotely

On health (both physical and mental) and building a startup

"Start with your strengths"

How to effectively communicate without sounding rude

Advice for founders beginning a startup during COVID19


How Fireflies.ai can make your work life easier


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