#204 Miro’s Andrey Khusid: LIVE (Rare) Interview — Scaling from Whiteboard Tool to $17.5B Giant with Product-Led Discipline
Andrey Khusid is the founder and CEO of Miro, the world’s leading visual collaboration platform used by 60M+ users with $400M+ in ARR and a $17.5B valuation.
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In this rare public conversation, recorded live with an audience of top founders and operators in Sydney, Andrey reflects on:
- Why Miro waited years to raise VC funding and what changed
- Building Miro’s B2C2B motion and expanding into global enterprise
- Why only 10–15% of users are design-focused and how that’s often misunderstood
- Capital efficiency and his philosophy of “burn little, insure yourself”
- Leadership habits as Miro scaled from 10 to 1,600+ employees
- Re-calibrating culture, hiring senior leaders, and staying grounded as a global CEO
- Prioritising product, distribution, monetisation and culture and what’s stayed constant since 2011
- Australian influences on his journey, and what’s next for Miro
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