Today’s guest is Gonçalo Silva, CTO of Doist, the company behind Todoist and Twist.
This interview is an incredible behind the scenes about one of the most peculiar companies in tech.
Because Doist is bootstrapped, profitable, has no office and has about 100 employees that are spread across about 40 countries. Yet, or maybe for this reason, they created one of the world’s most beloved productivity tools, used by more than 25 million users and they’re up against billion-dollar companies with hundreds of millions of funding.
So how do they pull this off? Let’s find out.
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🥇 Interview Summary
If you are a 🔒 paid subscriber 🔒 you will find my own summary of the interview below.
It’s the 10-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.
Here is the agenda for today:
🏢 The Doist philosophy: small, bootstrapped, and distributed
🌍 Async-first communication
🧩 Functional teams vs squad-based execution
🎯 Balancing opinionated product vision with user feedback
🤖 AI’s impact on engineering work
Let’s dive in 👇
