Bringing business phones into the 21st century

With Daryna Kulya, Co-Founder of OpenPhone

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Today, we’re picking the 🧠 of Daryna Kulya, Co-founder, OpenPhone.

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OpenPhone: The 21st Century Business Phone!

OpenPhone is an app to which you can add all your work numbers. It can live on all your everyday devices and, on top of calls and messages, offers a full suite of integrations to your work tools.

Daryna is on a mission to rewrite the future of the business phone, bringing it back from the dead and into the 21st century. 🚆

With an impressive 200%+ Net Revenue Retention (NRR), OpenPhone is loved by teams at Sonder, Linear, AirGarage, Soon, and Avalon, among others.

Catch our in-depth breakdown of OpenPhone’s growth story here!

We cover a lot of ground here with Daryna, including:

• Tweet Reactions 🐦

• How does OpenPhone help you?

• How to win trust in online communities?

• How to find a balance between existing demand and demand creation?

• Prioritizing customer delight

• Engineering word of mouth

• How she stays in touch with customers even today

• The importance of dogfooding your product

• Plugging sales into a PLG motion

• The difference in how sales operates now vs. 10 years ago

• Engineering spike events

• Rapid Fire

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Shownotes 📝

Darya’s recommendations:

🛠 Tool: Zapier

🙌 LinkedIn Account: Devin Reed

Connect with her at :

🔗 LinkedIn

💙 Twitter

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