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How Calendly Eliminated Scheduling Back-and-Forth
In this episode of Startup Stories with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how Calendly turned a universal frustration—the endless email chain to schedule a meeting—into a $3 billion company. They trace founder Tope Awotona's unlikely path: a non-technical immigrant entrepreneur who bootstrapped the business to millions in revenue before ever taking venture capital. The conversation unpacks Calendly's product-led growth, its freemium strategy that made scheduling a commodity, and the network effects that locked in users. Lucas and Luna also discuss why Calendly's integration-first…
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