Engineering Founders Podcast

Momento cofounders Daniela Miao and Khawaja Shams joined the Engineering Founders podcast to explain how they pivoted from a consumer app to a business-to-business backend-as-a-service (BaaS) offering.

Lessons from the pivot

They share three leadership lessons from the pivot:

• Start with a team, not a product.
• Keep communication open while choosing a new direction.
• Seek feedback from the market.

It took us some time, but we eventually internalized that we’re not the domain experts in this. And in some cases, we learned that the investors knew more about the space than we did.

—Khawaja Shams

Listen to the conversation

The full conversation runs 40 minutes and follows the cofounders’ journey from social fitness technology to what they saw as a missing piece in the serverless stack.

Listen to the full Engineering Founders episode for Daniela and Khawaja’s account of cofounder trust and a major pivot.