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HOW WE RUN PENTO
WHY WE DO IT THAT WAY
Emil Rasmussen - CTO
Jonas and me at the Golden Gate Bridge
Greenticket Hivebeat Pento
Greenticket
Online Ticketing
Not extremely scalable
Great catalyst
Greenticket Hivebeat Pento
Go big
Find a niche
General Product
Hivebeat
Spin off - focusing on Universities
Had gotten the taste for going big
Got into 500 Startups
$0
What we were worth according to 500 Startups
Pivot Memberships Organizations Still events
Greenticket Hivebeat Pento
Go big
Vision
Find a niche
General Product
Lack of P/M Fit
Premature scaling
Did everything
Freedom
Solve problem
Remote work
Do research
No code before research
Also for new features
“Sell” features before we build
Do Research
Remote Work
Larger talent pool
No distractions
More freedom
LOTS of responsibility
Questions?
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How we run pento

Editor's Notes

  1. Experiences and failures of Greenticket and Hivebeat informed Pento.
  2. The company at SVAA Student project Got us into startups Margins are so low that you need to be HUGE to be big