Confee is looking for FTE full-stack JavaScript developers

1. March 16,2021
We’re lookingfor skilledFull Stack
JavaScript Developers.
Gabor Orosz
Co-Founder & Head of Product
gabor@confee.com

2. Peter Hargittay
ZoltanArvai
Leading Marketing Team,
Fundraising
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
CMO & VPofBusinessDevelopment with20+ years
experienceleading marketinganddemandgenerationfor
growthcompanies. Previouslywith Intellect, Arise,
PeopleSupport,Exult,andFileNet. Frequent speakerand
sponsorofconferencesandwebinars.
15+yearsofexperienceas aSeniorSoftwareEngineer.
Previouslya digitalconsultantatMcKinsey& Company
andanexpertatbuilding technicalfoundationsandscaling
engineering teams.
Serialentrepreneurandangel investor.Chairmanof0100
Ventures,including conferencesforinvestors,techfestivals, &
co-workingfacilities.Workedwithseveral leading tech
companiesin Europeandglobally.
An experienced globaland virtual team
OUR CO-FOUNDER TEAM
GaborOrosz
Product and People Management
15+yearsin DigitalProductManagement, including
productmarketfit, productdiscovery,andagile delivery of
new softwaresolutions. Speakeratandorganizerof
professionalevents.

3. Sean Ellis John Egan Mike Cortez
Author, CEO of GrowthHackers, and formerCMO 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
GrowthHackerPioneer,co-authorof“Hacking Growth”,
coined thephrase“growthhacking”, anadvisorand
boardmember ofnumeroustechnologystartups.
Frequentspeakerandevent organizer.
Leads100+engineers to optimizegrowthwitha
focusoninvites/ referrals,emails/notifications,
SEO,paidacquisition/SEM,activation,B2B
growth& more.Organized100’sof professional
meetups.
Former Big 4 CPA withpublic andprivate
companies,andwithIPO andM&A experience.
An expertatimplementing a solid andscalable
accountingfoundationforstartups.
Marketingexecutive with10+yearsexperience
leading productmarketing,paidgrowth,demand
gen lifecycles,salesdevelopment, go-to-market,and
conferencemanagement. Frequentspeakerat
events.
Tech experts with specialized skills
ADVISORS
Kim Darling
VP of Events at HubSpot, Producerof
INBOUND
ProducerofINBOUND,HubSpot’sannual
event with 26,000attendees,andthe year-
roundvideo show,‘THE INBOUNDStudio.’
Managesateamof 20tomanageevents 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 meetups
Help people find conferences they love,then saveand share those events with friends
Connect attendees, organizers, speakers andsponsors more efficiently and with
an amazing customer experience,plus customer reviews

5. Who will use
Confee?
Confeeis a marketplace for conferences. LikeAirbnb, we’re
connectingorganizers and attendeesefficiently, and usingdata to
create an amazing customer experience.
Users will beconference 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 canfollow organizer plans
Gather info about attendees
New demand generation solution
Attendees
Find,save, andshare conferences
Manage conference plans withteams
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
Buildtrust and brand reputation
Feedback for businesses
Appear higherin search engine rankings
Advantages for Attendees
Insight into past attendee experiences
Improve decision making
Buywithconfidenceand 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 isto add every virtual and onsite conference, webinar, summit, tradeshow, expo,
career fair, professional meetup and talkin the world to Confee and create transparency and
shareability so that people around the world maylearn from each other and grow.
VISION & MISSION

9. Interviewed20+marketing,sales,and conferenceorganizers for
marketfitand product discovery feedback.
Receivedoverwhelminginterest.
Allparticipantsagreed totry Confee when firstavailable.
Market fit analysis with
marketing leaders
Bela Gombos
VP ofGlobalRegionalMarketing
& Sales
Elastic
Rebecca Sadwick
Managing PartnerStrategica
Partners
BoardMember
Girl Develop It
Daniel Almasy
VP ofDigitalMarketing
SynchronyFinancial
Natalia Jamborova
ConferenceDirector
0100Conferences
Lucy Tekneyan
Digital MarketingManager
Intellect
Andy Singer
SeniorDirectorofSales
CommonAreas
CUSTOMER STUDY

10. https://www.markletic.com/blog/virtual-event-statistics/
88%oforganizershost15or morevirtualeventsperyear
66%ofeventorganizersmake theirvirtualeventsavailable
on-demandafter theevent
Virtual events mean more events
MARKET TRENDS
Unlike traditional events, virtual conferences remain onlineand available on-demand

11. Event industry hasbeen disrupted by Covid and it's going to keep acceleratingbeyond
that. Hopin has become the fastest B2B startup to reach unicornstatus
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 builda fully managed infra
TECHNOLOGY STACK stack
Runningon AWS Cloud
We useFargate withElasticContainerService
Our components are runningin Docker
Amazon RDSwithPostgreSQL
TypeScript both on frontend and backend
React v17 + Next.jsserver-side rendering
Prisma ORM for database access and migrations

13. We build our company on these values
• Wefocusonpragmaticsolutionsin
every situation,wearenotover-
analyzingproblems.
• Wereactanddecidequicklyand
move theproductforward.
• Wepostponetopicsthataren’t
necessaryforthenextstep.
Pragmatic andunblocking
• Ourcommunication is clear and
transparent.
• Togetherwe’re ableto deal with all
problems, wearea 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
• Wedon’tstopatfollowing oldprocesses, we
focusongood results.
• Wefocusonthe productandthetasksthatare
neededtorealizeourvision.
• Wealwayspayattentiontohigh qualitycode,
testing andreliableoperation.
• Wemanagetechnical debtwitha conscious
strategy.
Deliver
realvalue
• Wedon’tthinkin hierarchies
• Everyonehasgood ideas
• Weareopen toexternalinputsandweshow
respect foreach other,regardless of
experience.
• Weall takeoutthe trash,nobodyis above
anytask.
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-onfull-stackweb development experiencewith professionalJavaScriptknowledge
TypeScriptorbefamiliarwithatleastone type-basedlanguage,also beawareofthe best practices
DeepReactexperience fromatleast2-3differentprojectsis required,client-sidestatemanagement
(Redux,Hooks,Context)
Server-siderenderingknowledge(previous PHP/ASP.NET/JSP/etc. experienceis aplus)
Youhavebuiltatleastone complexRESTAPI onNode.js andknowthe design best practiceswell
KnowingRDMBS/ NoSQLschema design principles, especially relationaldatabaseschemanormalization
/ denormalizationmethods
XP
Wefocusonskills,notyears

16. Professional skills
Goodsense fordesign (no needtodesign, buttofollowthe existing oneaccuratelyandspotinaccuracies
is important)
Passionformentoring / knowledgesharingis important(advantageofprevious educational,lecturing
experience)
XP #2
Wefocusonskills,notyears

17. Extras
Next.jsSSR
Experiencein search technologies(ElasticSearch)
Experiencein payment platform integrations(Stripe, BrainTree,
etc.)
Experiencein CRM integrations(HubSpot)
XP #3

18. Product development,
architectural designand
implementationof features
Maintainingthe qualityand
integrity of gooddesign
patterns, code andarchitecture
as a championof quality
Involvement in the design and
management of infrastructure
and automationprocesses
Mentoring teammates, junior
colleagues,supportingtheir
work withpaircoding / PR
reviews
What will you be doing?
WORK @ CONFEE

19. COMPENSATIONPACKAGE
Be the 4rd developer in our team:
Gross 750k-1,2m HUF monthly
+ 45k 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 roundsand share value
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* With 1 year cliff, 3 years vesting period

20. CONTACT INFO
Gabor Orosz
Head of Product
gabor@confee.com