Company Lore
What was the name of the accelerator Contenda participated in pre-product?
Envision Accelerator
Who has the largest head on the full time team?
Johnson
What are the time scales used in Linear?
XS- a few hours
S- a day
M- 1-2 days
L- 2-3 days
XL- 3-5 days
Why is it hard to sell analytics?
People don't know what to do with it.
What is the name of our lead investor and his firm?
Jason Chen, Contrary Capital
Why is the company named Contenda?
Lilly needed to submit a company name for the Pear Accelerator pitch and only knew it was gonna be for "content creators". Content. Contenda?
Name all of the undergraduate majors for every full time employee (including interns).
Clara- CS
Steven- CS
Johnson- Math
Lilly- Mathematical Economics
Ben- Sociology
Kyle- CS
Josh- Film
Why do we care about Time-To-Ship (2-3 reasons)?
Trust based community
Quick iterations in a rapidly evolving industry
Forces prioritization to reduce overengineering
What are the 3 categories of products we're aiming to serve?
Community workflows, editing/streaming tools, analytics for content strategy
Who was our first angel commit?
Paul English
What was the name of the investor who saved Contenda's original deck from being stolen?
Ian Taylor from Pear
Name the previous relevant companies for every full time employee (not including interns)
Steven- Google and Bloomberg
Johnson- Midgame
Clara- PayPal and Google
Lilly- Rapid7, Midgame, and Facebook
Josh- Colorado College Esports
What are the requirements of a good post mortem?
Blameless, chronological telling, next steps
Why do we have to combine the products into 1 platform? (2-3 reasons)
Ability to charge
Customers want everything in one place
Internal vision of being the all-in-one tool
Which angel wrote the biggest individual check and how much was it?
Eliot Horowitz, 150k
What are the 4 rules in the #welcome-and-rules for the Contenda Discord?
Rule 1: have fun
Rule 2: pummel party is a skill based game and there is no disputing that
Rule 3: we only order boba if johnson isn't here
Rule 4: No pogging in gen chat
Name, in sequential order, every person who has ever been on the team.
Lilly/Steven/Johnson
Ben
Yvonne
Trisha/Kyle/Clara
Josh
Describe the tradeoffs of using serverless vs servers
Speed to production, customizability (programming language, OS, memory, CPU)
What is our growth strategy and why?
B2B sales generate referrals in a highly referral based industry, but we need DTS sales to generate enough revenue
How many times were we rejected by Pear VC?
Twice for Pear Accelerator, once for Pear Competition, once for Pear seed funding
In the original pitch deck, who are the streamers in the emails?
Day[9] and T90Official
What was the full name of the original CTO of Contenda?
Craig Fan
What is the biggest security risk we currently have?
Client side token exchanges and using the same admin credentials across all users.
Why do we support cross platform? (3 reasons)
Cross platform is difficult to scale --> Huge pain point (expensive and manual)
Future of creator economy
Reduce platform risk
Name all of our angel investors
Eliot Horowitz
Bilal Mahmood
Cassidy Williams
Jason Shen
Wayne Gerard
Jim O'Neill
Vipul Shah