Michael Yaroshefsky
Mar 3, 2025
To win the AI wars, make your AI invisible
The best AI is the kind you barely notice. Visor CEO explains why by looking at prior hype cycles in tech.
Oct 1, 2024
What Smartsheet Customers Need to Know About The Private Equity Takeover
Vista and Blackstone just acquired Smartsheet. Here’s what Smartsheet users can expect, and signs it’s time to make a change.
Mar 14, 2024
Think your PLG strategy doesn’t need sales people? Think again.
We're a product-led growth company. But we're hiring our first salesperson. Here's why, and why it might not look like you'd expect.
Jan 17, 2024
What actually popped InVision’s billion-dollar bubble (Hint: it wasn’t Figma)
Nobody would have guessed that seven years after InVision’s meteoric rise, it would be labeled “the Myspace of design tools.” Visor CEO explains what happened.
Dec 14, 2023
Climbing the Curve: The Platitude-free Guide to Identifying Early Signs of Product-Market Fit
Visor's CEO unpacks the journey toward product-market fit, and how entrepreneurs can determine whether they're on the right path toward it.
Jun 8, 2022
The most important email I write each week
One email helps Visor CEO Mike Yaroshefsky keep his remote team aligned. See how.
May 19, 2022
Auditory Console Logging: Identifying Bugs by Listening to Code Execution
If code was a musical score, how would it sound when played? Would it be possible to identify patterns and even problems by listening to it?
Feb 10, 2022
2021: The Year of You
Each year, we like to share an update with our community about how Visor grew, and what’s on deck for the new year.
Dec 13, 2021
The Decision-Free Sales Process
If you haven't noticed, product-led growth methodology is having a moment. It's the bold idea that some products shouldn't need to be sold by salespeople.
Oct 12, 2021
Visor is hiring (October 2021)
On the heels of announcing our $5.0 million seed funding, I'm thrilled to share more about the roles we're adding to our team.
Oct 6, 2021
Captain’s Log #50
Visor's founder and CEO, Mike Yaroshefsky, publishes a private newsletter to investors, advisors, and friends of the company. We've republished the 50th edition of the newsletter.
Sep 29, 2021
Launching the World’s Most Connected Spreadsheet
Today, Visor announces our $5m seed round to empower solutioneers everywhere to build amazing business solutions powered by live business data from all their apps.
Sep 29, 2021
Visor Announces $5 million of Seed Funding and the Launch of the World’s Most Connected Spreadsheet to Democratize Internal Application Building
Visor, maker of the world's most connected spreadsheet for internal application building, today announced $5M of seed funding. General Catalyst Partners led the financings.
Aug 5, 2021
How We Turned Salesforce Into a Modern Growth Engine
Meet Plato, our automated growth engine. We use Plato to understand who our users are, where they came from, and and what they're doing in Visor.
Mar 23, 2021
7 Reasons Why Spreadsheets are the Ultimate No-Code App Builder
Every successful company faces crossroads. At Visor, we realized we made a wrong turn three years in.
Mar 5, 2021
How CloudStore helped us build Visor 10x faster
See how CloudStore, our internal architecture, lets the Visor team build 10x faster by reducing the need to write server code as we expand the product.
Mar 2, 2021
Why I Founded Visor: Narrowing the Divide
At an early age, I witnessed how technology divides people into the techno-haves and the have-nots. Bridging this gap is a crucial challenge for the 21st...
Jul 17, 2020
Behind the Product: CloudStore Part 3 [The Advantages and Tradeoffs of CloudStore]
CloudStore has made our product better for our customers. Our loads are fast and user interactions are instant. Learn more.
Jun 1, 2020
Behind the Product: CloudStore (Part 1)
Visor's application database represents data as a graph that synchronizes itself. This has given our team incredible leverage to punch above our weight class.
May 17, 2020
Coronavirus: The end of “good times?” Good riddance!
After the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s time to refocus on building quality businesses, growing thoughtfully, and caring deeply about our impact on our customers, our colleagues, and...