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http://asana.com/company/ http://asana.com/company/ Too many people?

• synnik 15y ago
  Agreed - the app itself looks fine, but it is trying to enter a very crowded market that has no real barrier to entry. And also no real killer features. So I worry whether or not there is an actual underlying business model that can sustain such a large team. Something in there just does not add up.
• bane 15y ago
  I thought you were joking till I checked: 19 staff/founders and 14 board/advisors? No wonder it took them 3 years to get to beta with a fancy to-do app -- too many cooks in the kitchen! (on closer inspection, not everybody on the list has something to do with the app, they also list their chef, a "coordinator" (whatever that means), and recruiters and sales folks) with all kinds of ex-FB and ex-Googlers (and an ex-Palantir and Yelp) including data scientists, mathematicians and machine learning folks, I have a feeling they must have more in store than what they show here: http://asana.com/2011/05/new-asana-intro-video/ http://asana.com/2011/05/new-asana-intro-video/ And which Trello does much better. If not...this is way too heavyweight a team. Oh, and a $9mil round.
  • endeavor 15y ago
    I worry that that had such easy access to VC money that they decided to grow too soon. With the names of their roster, I assume people just showed up with wheel-barrels full of of money. With that many people you are already running into coordination and scaling problems. If you don't have a really clear product to focus on then you can have problems.