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Derrick Reimer is the founder of SavvyCal, a tool for scheduling meetings that both you and the people you are scheduling with will love. He's also the co-founder of Drip, a marketing automation tool, and he is the host of the Art of Product podcast.

I have long enjoyed using an app to schedule my meetings. For example, I scheduled meetings with my coaching clients. Rather than going back and forth with endless emails, trying to find a mutually convenient time. I just send people a link so they can book a slot on my calendar. I had been using a different tool, but recently I discovered SavvyCal and it's so much more enjoyable to use. So I looked into who created it and I ended up on Derrick's Twitter account. I learned that Derrick had co-founded Drip, which was one of the first apps I used years ago when I was first building my online business. And I have very fond memories of Drip, even though I no longer use it because Drip went into a different direction.

Anyway, I was interested to hear Derrick’s story—and it turns out there were quite a few ups and downs.

Derrick and I discuss:

• Regaining your confidence after launching a failed product
• Transitioning from wearing all the hats in a business to delegating certain tasks
• Saving your most productive time for your most valuable work

Find Derrick and Savvycal:

• SavvyCal.com
• Derrick on Twitter
• Derrick’s podcast, The Art of Product

Note: the link to SavvyCal is an affiliate link. It’s an awesome product and by signing up through this link, you get a free month and you support the podcast. Thank you.

Also mentioned:

• Derrick’s popular blog post, “I’m Walking Away From the Product I Spent a Year Building”
• Drip, the marketing automation business Derrick co-founded
• The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
• Tiny Seed, an accelerator for SaaS bootstrappers
• xFusion, which offers support staff for SaaS