Macgill Davis and Will Goto are the founders of Rize, a time-tracking platform that helps you increase your productivity, started in August 2020. Will and Macgill met at a company called Peer, which then got acquired by Twitter, they then left Twitter and founded a company called Humble Dot, which they raised for but unfortunately had to shut down.What we covered in this episode:
Working on a side project while at Twitter
Raising funding then leaving their jobs
Co-founders with the same technical background
A different approach to finding a co-founder
Shutting down a business when it’s not doing well
Searching for a new idea and solving your own problem
Creating a landing page and running some ads
Picking a market to focus on
Time tracking for productivity
Getting traction through AppSumo
Cash up front with lifetime deals
Raising vs bootstrapping
How to be more productive
Recommendations
Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport, Atomic Habits by James Clear
Podcast: The Rest is History/Revolutions, Masters of Scale

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