Overnight Success: WorkOS
Michael Grinich had built something everyone loved at his first startup. Users at NASA, Uber, and Facebook were all using it. There was just one problem: no enterprise would actually pay for it.
That painful lesson became the foundation for WorkOS. Today they're the backbone that helps companies like Vercel, Webflow, Loom, and Perplexity sell to the Fortune 500. But getting there? That's a different story entirely.
Michael will share:
The notebook of "bad ideas" that led to WorkOS
Why he intentionally picked the most boring problem he could find
Launching on Hacker News the same week the world went into lockdown
How they got to 200+ customers with no marketing team
The year-long sabbatical that changed everything (including why he calls it his "entrepreneur's Eat, Pray, Love")
This is the conversation about what it really takes to build boring infrastructure that everyone needs but nobody wants to build.
Limited to 30-50 founders. No slides. No script. Light bites and drinks provided.
04:30 pm: Doors open
05:00 pm: Fireside chat starts (40 mins chat, 20 mins Q&A)
06:00 pm: Office tour + mingling
06:30 pm: Doors shut
Part of the Overnight Success event series - see other events at overnightfpv.com