S7 E6: Rethinking the MVP: Spending 2.5 Years in Stealth to Build a Maximum Viable Product with Jon Darbyshire, Founder of SmartSuite

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Sep 27, 2022 · 32m

Jon Darbyshire is joined at the hip with his wife, in life and in business. They have been doing business together for 22 years, along with having 2 older kids, out in the world doing their own thing. He loves to do anything outside, and claims to be at Newport beach almost every day.

After selling his prior company called Archer Technologies, he sat down with many founders of startups, investing in their ideas and working with. What he noticed was that they spent the same amount of time talking business tooling as they did on their product. He started to think there must be a way to have one…