Hooray! Exponentially turns three today! I'm so proud of how far Exponentially (and pretotyping) has come. It's been a wild ride so far, and this year is proving to be our biggest yet. Let's take a look at how we got here...
2016
I nagged Alberto Savoia incessantly from across the world until he agreed to train me in pretotyping at Stanford.
2017
Registered ‘Exponential Innovation’ at the airport on the way to a Singularity University Global Summit so I’d have an interesting business card to create conversations.
Shared sushi (and a sneaky Italian cigar) with Alberto in a park in Mountain View. I agreed to pretotype the pretotyping business in APAC. He agreed to let me incorporate his workshop material into my training.
Ran my first workshop with RACV 30 days later.
Invented (on the fly, with a customer) and delivered our first two-week rapid experimentation sprint. And it worked! Pretotype #1 = validated!
2018
Scaled the business in 2018, working with some of Australia's top companies.
Launched the Exponentially app, a tool we use to run experiments at scale.
2019
Alberto launched his book The Right It (I even got a mention on page 248!)
Flew twice around the world delivering workshops and speaking on pretotyping.
2020
Hit 1000 pretotypes run with customers, saving them $13 million by NOT building the Wrong It, and have trained over 800 pretotypers and 150 start-up and scale-up founders across the world.
Launched "Project 10x" - online training to train the next 10000 pretotypers and run the next 10000 pretotypes. Learn more and celebrate with us in our Slack community.
We'd love to see you in our new Learn Pretotyping online course. Start with a free preview here and, when you're ready, use the code pretotype20 for 20% off until the end of the month!
If you're experiencing financial strain due to COVID-19, please send me a note at leslie@exponentially.com and I’ll see how I can make this course more affordable for you.
Meet our first scholarship winner, and apply now!
Every month, we offer one scholarship to our Learn Pretotyping online course.
Recipients receive access to the course for just $99, along with a one-on-one call with Exponentially’s founder, Leslie Barry, to kickstart your innovation journey. Read what our first scholarship recipient, Saibelle Khaibah has to say about her "aha moment," and then head to the application form to put your hat in the ring.
The most useful thing I've learned in the last three years...
I'm a huge fan of Inside Strategic Coach, a podcast by Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller. This episode - Why Rugged Individualism Limits Entrepreneurial Growth - has been hugely helpful in teaching me to "look for who, not how" when growing my business. Find the best people to help you grow: you don't have to do it all yourself. Listen here. I'd love to hear what you think - drop me a line on LinkedIn.
