Lessons Learned as Second Time Founders | Paragon Co-founders, Brandon Foo, Ishmael Samuel

We sat down with Brandon Foo and Ishmael Samuel, co-founders of Paragon, an embedded integration platform that simplifies connecting your SaaS app to users' CRMs and other SaaS applications.
Paragon has successfully raised over $16.5 million in funding and has experienced significant growth, expanding its user base 4x in recent years and usage by 17x YoY. Brandon and Ishmael shared insights into how they applied lessons from their first few startups towards building Paragon.
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[@deoarlo]

Great advice. Everything they said aligns very well with YC principals

[@johanngross6953]

Great interview! I've really enjoyed learning more from the founders you interview! thank you.

[@chinol3x]

This should have more views!

[@long_fellow]

I've learned not to trust people who can't give a straight answer for the simplest question like "what's your revenue?". How can you trust someone who describes their revenue only by growth rate? ("4x over the past few years", really?)

[@jezieljones8508]

Great team and awesome interview!

[@saurabhchaudhari5273]

Insightful...thank you...

[@Cygx]

It's true, integrating services is frustrating

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What is zapier doing?

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The name is the same as an FMCG company in the cosmetics sector that is 39 years old

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I am just wondering how do the cutomers trust and pay you before you build product if they think they could get scammed or the product couldn't be delievered?

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Kickstarter anyone

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