E45 Building a nextgen, authentic professional social network with Candor founder Kelsey Bishop

Sand Hill Road

In this episode, Erasmus Elsner is talking to Kelsey Bishop founder and CEO of Candor, which is a nexgen, authentic social network.

00:00​​ Intro

01:02 What is Candor

03:25 Single player mode

03:56 Kelsey’s background

06:19 Employee-culture fit

08:31 Getting started

10:31 Migrating from bubble

11:38 Raising the Seed

12:42 Getting pre-empted

13:50 Raising from angels

15:23 Solo founder journey

16:58 Product + traction

21:47 Business model

23:03 Talking to users

24:51 Remote first company

26:25 Becoming a CEO

27:03 Call to action