This page is maintained by @Stephane Roux
TL;DR: Learn about our teams and the history of Wonder.
With currently 44 people, we’re a fast-growing and remote-first operating team with people from all over the world. 🏳️🌈
Our first dinner after starting to work on Marrily at Leo's (together with our partners)
We got together in early 2020 and started to talk about building a product that would enable people to work and live together, rather than just offering a direct 1:1 connection that tends to be transactional. Alas, we had no money and decided to solve a small problem first that would generate some money. We settled on a platform for booking wedding photographers called 'Marrily'. It was a ton of fun and the metrics were looking good when COVID hit.
We still didn't have any money but the project we'd initially set out to work on became much more relevant. Everyone started talking about 'our' problem. So we hacked together a prototype based on a concept that Leonard had developed 5 years ago at university. The idea was to have a space where people see who else is speaking to whom and could move around and join conversations freely (see Our Product) The whole thing had to be browser-based to allow people to jump in immediately.
Leonard testing one of the first prototypes late at night
We ran a few user tests and the feedback was clear. Yotribe (as it was called back then) felt different, exciting and fresh. So we ditched our other jobs, focused on our project and went fundraising (see Funding & Investors). We raised our first round in July 2020, added our first team-member (Andrey) and moved into our first office.
Our new office after the first IKEA trip!
High spirits at the office opening party
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Since then, we've been working on building the product, growing our team and talking to our users.
Lunch focus
Launch focus
Berlin office
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Philosophizing