About the Founders Pond Blog
I’m Bart Kiszala. Great to meet you and welcome to Founders Pond! Let me introduce myself. I started my first business when I was 22. A few years later I co-funded Base CRM. I worked on a product for 10 years as the CPO till 2018 when the company was acquired by Zendesk.
Currently, I'm building Slickshift, a chat app for the transportation industry that centralizes communication between drivers and logistics teams. By applying AI, we automate the repetitive tasks of those teams. You can read about it here and here.
In the meantime, I’m building a community around Founders Pond, an initiative aimed at helping founders build companies. You can learn more about it here.
The Founders Pond blog focuses on publishing my personal perspectives—learnings and insights from running both Base and Slickshift, as well as from the companies I’ve invested in.
If you are a founder, planning to start or work in a startup, or maybe you're curious about the space I hope you’ll find the content interesting.
The best way to understand how I can help is to read the blog, however in a nutshell I hope to support you in the following categories:
Provide an early financing for your startup
Advice on how to
Start
Build a better product
Get more customers
Manage a team/ hire people
Raise money
Connect with people who might be relevant for you
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to reach out at bart@founderspond.com or DM me at @kiszal on Twitter. I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
