Tech founder journey from open source to SaaS with Julien Danjou @Mergify

saas.unbound is a podcast for and about founders who are working on scaling inspiring products that people love, brought to you by https://saas.group/, a serial acquirer of B2B SaaS companies. In episode #33, Anna Nadeina talks with Julien, CEO and founder of Mergify, a SaaS company providing merge automation and CI/CD tools for software engineering teams. ----------Episode's Chapters-------------- 00:00 - Julien's background 02:42 - The Journey of Building Mergify 06:43 - Challenges of Selling to Developers 13:03 - Marketing Strategies for Tech Products 22:30 - Falling in Love with the Problem 24:40 - The Importance of Problem-Solving in Tech 27:19 - Investing Mindset: Team vs. Product 30:55 - Navigating Competition in Tech 37:31 - Learning from Wins and Failures 44:38 - Building a Remote Team Culture Julien - https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliendanjou/ Mergify - https://mergify.com/ Subscribe to our channel to be the first to see the interviews that we publish twice a week - https://www.youtube.com/@saas-group Stay up to date: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaaS_group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/14790796

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