qwilr

Having taken on a market considered to be ‘conquered’ by Google and Microsoft, Mark Tanner is living proof that entrepreneurs can still re-write the competitor landscape. Frustrated by PowerPoint and PDF, Mark and co-founder Dylan Baskin created Qwilr – a now global operation offering software for businesses to create elegant web-based forms, proposals and contracts with consistent design principles. Following in the footsteps of Australia’s other design unicorn Canva, Qwilr just raised $10.8 million in a Series A round led by Airtree Ventures and Skip Capital and have their sights set on further expansion in Europe and the US. We chat to Mark in this episode about how he took on the tech giants…and won.

A conversation with the Australian company that has reimagined how we create online documents.

The guest on this episode of People Building Businesses is Qwilr COO and co-founder Mark Tanner.

Mark and our host Jason Lim speak about his early experience in startups, his time at Google, the early days of Qwilr, perfecting a SaaS product, raising money on four different occasions, working with investors, the 'Murder Your Darlings' approach, sales techniques and much more. It's a really insightful chat with lots of takeaways, we hope you enjoy it.

The podcast was produced, shot and edited by Joe Harrington.

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