S5 E14: Taking on Calendly: How Derrick Reimer Built SavvyCal to Win an Indescribably Crowded Market

Code Story | Startup Podcast for CTOs, CEOs and Technical Founders · Sep 14, 2021 · 36m

Derrick Reimer got his first computer in kindergarten. His Dad was a mechanical engineer, but at home, tinkered with code.. and Derrick was always interested in the projects he was working on. In junior high, he learned Dos basics, and started to make games. He found it really fun to write utilities and tools for people, and funny enough, he even tinkered with accounting software - and tried to replicate Quicken.

Even still, he ignored coding as a career path. He majored in math in college, and wasn't sure how he wanted to apply it. He needed more creativity than most math jobs offered at the…