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Matin Movassate On Raising $95 Million To Help Companies Turn Data Into Action
Matin Movassate has raised almost $100M for his deep analytics startup to help entrepreneurs systemize building great products. His venture, Heap has successfully raised funding from top-tier investors like Maverick Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, SharePost Investment Management, and DTCP.
In this episode, you will learn:
* Your number one job as a CEO
* Building a megazord, and putting the team back in leadership
* How he interviews to recruit great executives
* Heap’s mission for empowering entrepreneurs
* Matin’s top advice when starting a business
* Product market fit versus scale
Alejandro Cremades · EP 321 Matin Movassate on Raising $95 Million To Help Companies Turn Data Into Action
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About Matin Movassate:
Matin Movassate is the CEO and Co-founder of Heap, a company that automates customer analytics for some of the largest online businesses in the world.
Within four years, Heap already boasts over 6,000 customers, including Lending Club, Zendesk, Twilio, and Liberty Mutual. Heap was born out of Matin’s experience with analytics as a Product Manager at Facebook and had access to the best analytics infrastructure in the world.
While at Facebook, Matin Movassate led the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative products, established shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution, drove product development with a team of world-class engineers and designers, and integrated usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements to enhance user satisfaction.
Matin Movassate also, defined and analyzed metrics that inform the success of products and maximized efficiency in a constantly evo...