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Podcast: The SaaS Podcast - AI, Growth & Product-Market Fit for SaaS Founders
Episode: Launching a Marketplace: From Excel to 14K Developers
Description: Diego Oppenheimer spent five years building Microsoft Excel features used by a billion people. Then he discovered that even Microsoft's $7 billion research center couldn't get algorithms to the teams that needed them. So he set about launching a marketplace to fix that.
Algorithmia connects academics building powerful algorithms with app developers who can use them - and hit 14,000 developers on the two-sided platform far faster than expected. Diego shares the journey of launching a marketplace from scratch, plus the systematic fundraising approach that raised $2.5 million by pitching worst-fit investors first.
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