The story of how Typeform was built

David Okuniev, Typeform, European Founder, International Founders, SaaS (software as a service)

I noticed something happening online a few years ago. Instead of people using the old forms that were out there, instead of embedding a form on their sites, people just went to Typeform. I started noticing it more and more and I thought it was interesting.

The forms were one line, one question at a time, very conversational and very simple. It didn’t even feel like a form. I thought it was a really interesting company.

David Okuniev is the founder of Typeform, a tool to build conversational forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and more. I’m going to ask him how he did it.

David Okuniev

Typeform

David Okuniev is the founder of Typeform, a tool to build conversational forms, surveys, quizzes, landing pages, and more.

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So, I feel like I live in the future because the software that the entrepreneurs that I interview and I befriend and the geeks that I befriend and the sites that I look at are always a little bit more advanced than everyone else. And so I taking a lot of interest years ago when I started to see Typeform appear everywhere. Instead of using the old forms that were out there, instead of embedding a form on their sites, people just went to Typeform. And so I started noticing it more...

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