karlis lauva (fullcontact) @ techhub riga monthly meetup

The Transatlantic

Struggle

Building great products on both sides of the pond

Kārlis Lauva // FullContact

● We are solving the world's contact information problem

● Consumer apps for the web, iOS and Android

● APIs for enterprises

● Raised 19M in funding from some of the best investors

on the planet

Who we are?

December 2012: Cobook for iOS

February 2015: FullContact for iOS

How we got there?

From 6 people in TechHub

To 52 people in Denver & Riga

By being awesome with people

And having company values!

“We are a team”

Fixing global problems & working

globally

“Respect every person”

“Move at the speed of trust”

Without trusting each other, it would be

impossible to operate

on a global scale

“Communicate with candor”

Communication across 9 time zones

● Slack

● Google Docs & Hangouts

● Pivotal Tracker

● 7Geese

● GitHub

“Never stop improving”

Employees grow with the company

● Investing in employee improvement

● Presence in related tech communities

● Code reviews and internal training

● Paid paid vacations & getting off the grid

“Be customer focused”

Helping customers succeed around the

clock

● 5 CS people in both Denver and Riga

● Days on the helpdesk for all employees

“Keep shipping”

What we have in store

● Business Card Reader for iOS and Android

● FullContact webapp

● FullContact for Gmail

● Contact data APIs

● FullContact for iOS

Coming soon!

Up-to-date contacts everywhere.

We're hiring!

● Like to solve challenging problems?

● Believe that coding is an art?

● Engineering positions in Riga

● Android, iOS and JVM-based backend systems

Thanks!

Kārlis Lauva, 2015

@FullContactInc