This week, we welcome visitor Hana Mohan to our podcast Found. Hana is the co-founder and CEO of MagicBell, a brand new startup she created with Josue Montano that only in the near past graduated from Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. MagicBell is a full-featured, plug-and-play notifications inbox geared toward builders who wish to construct one into their very own product, however don’t wish to need to construct one themselves from scratch.
Hana’s expertise as an entrepreneur spans a number of firms, together with her final one which she grew to important success by way of annual income. She’s additionally a proud transgender lady, who underwent her transition mid-way by her present historical past as a founder and entrepreneur. Hana talks to us in regards to the challenges she confronted taking over her transition in an business the place the main focus is usually solely on how exhausting you’re hustling and what you’re constructing subsequent, and about her origin story as a founder coming from an surroundings the place there weren’t essentially many examples with related life expertise to look to for inspiration.
During our chat, Hana additionally shared a lot of perception into YC, and what it offers founders, in addition to perspective on what it was like going by this system throughout a worldwide pandemic in a distant context. Finally, she provides some nice context on discovering your first buyers and clients as a distributed staff.
We cherished speaking to Hana, and we hope you like the episode. You can subscribe to Found in Apple Podcasts, on Spotify, on Google Podcasts or in your podcast app of selection. Definitely depart us a overview and tell us what you suppose, or ship us direct suggestions both on Twitter or through electronic mail. Come again subsequent week for yet one more nice dialog with a founder all about their very own one-of-a-kind startup journey.
