Our mission is to bring together organizers, attendees, speakers and sponsors in a highly efficient manner, and create an exceptional customer experience for all.
Our goal is to add every virtual and onsite conference, webinar, summit, tradeshow, expo, career fair, professional meetup and talk in the world to Confee and create transparency and shareability so that people around the world may learn from each other and grow.
We're looking for great developers
1. March 16, 2021
We’re looking for skilled
Full Stack JavaScript
Developers.
Gabor Orosz
Co-Founder & Head of Product
gabor@confee.com
2. Zoltan Arvai
Architecture and Leading
Development Teams
Istvan Vamossy
Business Strategy Operations,
VC Connections
Product development team in Budapest, business and fundraising in USA (Los Angeles), remote by default
15+ years of experience as a Senior
Software Engineer. Previously a
digital consultant at McKinsey &
Company and an expert at building
technical foundations and scaling
engineering teams.
Serial entrepreneur and angel investor.
Chairman of 0100 Ventures, including
conferences for investors, tech
festivals, & co-working facilities.
Worked with several leading tech
companies in Europe and globally.
An experienced global and virtual team
OUR CO-FOUNDER TEAM
Gabor Orosz
Product and People
Management
15+ years in Digital Product
Management, including product
market fit, product discovery, and
agile delivery of new software
solutions. Speaker at and organizer
of professional events.
3. Sean Ellis John Egan Mike Cortez
Author, CEO of GrowthHackers,
and former CMO of Eventbrite,
Dropbox, and LogMeIn
Head of Growth
Engineering at Pinterest
Corporate Controller at
Ring, an Amazon Company
Jami Schwartz
Global Head of Marketing,
Olympics Partnerships &
Airbnb for Work
Growth Hacker Pioneer, co-author
of “Hacking Growth”, coined the
phrase “growth hacking”, an
advisor and board member of
numerous technology startups.
Frequent speaker and event
organizer.
Leads 100+ engineers to
optimize growth with a focus
on invites/ referrals,
emails/notifications, SEO, paid
acquisition/SEM, activation,
B2B growth & more. Organized
100’s of professional meetups.
Former Big 4 CPA with public
and private companies, and
with IPO and M&A
experience. An expert at
implementing a solid and
scalable accounting
foundation for startups.
Marketing executive with 10+
years experience leading
product marketing, paid
growth, demand gen lifecycles,
sales development, go-to-
market, and conference
management. Frequent
speaker at events.
Tech experts with specialized skills
ADVISORS
Kim Darling
VP of Events at HubSpot,
Producer of INBOUND
Producer of INBOUND,
HubSpot’s annual event with
26,000 attendees, and the
year-round video show, ‘THE
INBOUND Studio.’ Manages a
team of 20 to manage
events for HubSpot.
4. Marketplace for
conferences
SOLUTION
Promote Conferences
Airbnb for conferences
Find, save & share conferences
Enable organizers to promote virtual, live and hybrid
conferences, webinars, and professional meet ups
Help people find conferences they love, then save and
share those events with friends
Connect attendees, organizers, speakers and
sponsors more efficiently and with an amazing
customer experience, plus customer reviews
5. Who will use
Confee?
Confee is a marketplace for conferences.
Like Airbnb, we’re connecting organizers
and attendees efficiently, and using data
to create an amazing customer
experience.
Users will be conference organizers,
attendees, speakers and sponsors.
Organizers
Marketing event manager, age
25-35, high energy and highly
social extravert, loves social
media and tends to be an early
adopter of technology.
Attendees
Initially targeting high tech
professionals, age 25-45, often
in sales, marketing, and growth
roles. In time, will broaden to
include all conference
attendees.
IDEAL CUSTOMER PROFILE
6. Organizers
List conferences (basic & premium)
Users can follow organizer plans
Gather info about attendees
New demand generation solution
Attendees
Find, save, and share conferences
Manage conference plans with teams
Automated notices & reminders
Read customer reviews
KEY PRODUCT FEATURES
7. 79% trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations from friends and family
Imagine buying something on Amazon, booking a
trip, accepting a new job, trying a new restaurant, or
buying software without reading customer reviews.
The power of customer reviews
REVIEW SITES
https://www.brightlocal.com/research/local-consumer-review-survey/
Advantages for Organizers
Build trust and brand reputation
Feedback for businesses
Appear higher in search engine rankings
Advantages for Attendees
Insight into past attendee experiences
Improve decision making
Buy with confidence and reduce risk
8. Our vision is to be the world’s #1
destination for conferences
Our mission is to bring together organizers, attendees,
speakers and sponsors in a highly efficient manner, and
create an exceptional customer experience for all.
Our goal is to add every virtual and onsite conference,
webinar, summit, tradeshow, expo, career fair, professional
meetup and talk in the world to Confee and create
transparency and shareability so that people around the
world may learn from each other and grow.
VISION & MISSION
9. Interviewed 20+ marketing, sales, and
conference organizers for market fit and
product discovery feedback.
Received overwhelming interest.
All participants agreed to try Confee when
first available.
Market fit analysis
with marketing
leaders Bela Gombos
VP of Global Regional
Marketing & Sales
Elastic
Rebecca Sadwick
Managing Partner
Strategica Partners
Board Member
Girl Develop It
Daniel Almasy
VP of Digital
Marketing
Synchrony Financial
Natalia Jamborova
Conference Director
0100 Conferences
Lucy Tekneyan
Digital Marketing
Manager
Intellect
Andy Singer
Senior Director of
Sales
Common Areas
CUSTOMER STUDY
10. https://www.markletic.com/blog/virtual-event-statistics/
88% of organizers host 15 or more
virtual events per year
66% of event organizers make their
virtual events available on-demand
after the event
Virtual events mean more events
MARKET TRENDS
Unlike traditional events, virtual conferences remain online and available on-demand
11. Event industry has been disrupted by Covid and it's
going to keep accelerating beyond that. Hopin has
become the fastest B2B startup to reach
unicorn status from founding (reached $2.1B
valuation in 17 months).
Hopin is setting records
in less than 2 years
VIRTUAL EVENTS
Date Round Amount
10/10/2019 Pre-Seed $120,000
2/20/2020 Seed $6,500,000
6/25/2020 Series A $40,000,000
11/10/2020 Series B $125,000,000
3/4/2021 Series C $400,000,000
Funding History
12. We strive to build a fully managed infra
TECHNOLOGY STACK
stack
Running on AWS Cloud
We use Fargate with Elastic Container Service
Our components are running in Docker
Amazon RDS with PostgreSQL
TypeScript both on frontend and backend
React v17 + Next.js server-side rendering
Prisma ORM for database access and migrations
13. We build our company on these values
• We focus on
pragmatic solutions in
every situation, we are
not over-analyzing
problems.
• We react and decide
quickly and move the
product forward.
• We postpone topics
that aren’t necessary
for the next step.
Pragmatic and
unblocking
• Our communication is
clear and transparent.
• Together we’re able to
deal with all problems,
we are a team.
Transparent
communication
• Trust is earned and not
given.
• To build a great
company we must
earn the trust of our
customers one at a
time.
• We must also earn
each other’s thrust
trough honesty and
consistency.
Trust
• We don’t stop at following
old processes, we focus on
good results.
• We focus on the product
and the tasks that are
needed to realize our vision.
• We always pay attention to
high quality code, testing
and reliable operation.
• We manage technical debt
with a conscious strategy.
Deliver
real value
• We don’t think in
hierarchies
• Everyone has good ideas
• We are open to external
inputs and we show
respect for each other,
regardless of experience.
• We all take out the trash,
nobody is above any task.
Professional
humility
CULTURE
14. Work from home policy
REMOTE
Our development team is in Budapest,
we work from home. After COVID we plan
to lean towards a hybrid model (mix of
remote work and some days in the
office)
15. Professional skills
Hands-on full-stack web development experience with
professional JavaScript knowledge
TypeScript or be familiar with at least one type-based language,
also be aware of the best practices
Deep React experience from at least 2-3 different projects is
required, client-side state management (Redux, Hooks, Context)
Server-side rendering knowledge (previous
PHP/ASP.NET/JSP/etc. experience is a plus)
You have built at least one complex REST API on Node.js and
know the design best practices well
Knowing RDMBS / NoSQL schema design principles, especially
relational database schema normalization / denormalization
methods
XP
We focus on skills, not years
16. Professional skills
Good sense for design (no need to design, but to follow the
existing one accurately and spot inaccuracies is important)
Passion for mentoring / knowledge sharing is important
(advantage of previous educational, lecturing experience)
XP #2
We focus on skills, not years
17. Extras
Next.js SSR
Experience in search technologies
(ElasticSearch)
Experience in payment platform
integrations (Stripe, BrainTree, etc.)
Experience in CRM integrations
(HubSpot)
XP #3
18. Product
development,
architectural
design and
implementation of
features
Maintaining the
quality and
integrity of good
design patterns,
code and
architecture as a
champion of
quality
Involvement in the
design and
management of
infrastructure and
automation
processes
Mentoring
teammates, junior
colleagues,
supporting their
work with pair
coding / PR reviews
What will you be doing?
WORK @ CONFEE
19. COMPENSATION PACKAGE
Be the 4th developer in our team:
Gross $2500-$4000 monthly
+ 0,2-0,5% pre-seed ESOP shares*
Date Round Investment Your share’s value
2021.03.31. Pre-Seed - CLOSED $150,000 $12,825
2021.09.30. Seed $2,000,000 $34,200
2022.03.31. Series A $5,000,000 $68,400
2023.03.31. Series B $20,000,000 $218,880
Forecast for investment rounds and share value
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* With 1 year cliff, 3 years vesting period