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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results. Even if we decided to use bare-metal infrastructure, even if we decided to do everything ourself, we did try to lower our investment as much as possible. The engineering team was super, super small at this moment.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

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One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. Another piece of very, very good startup advice that I’ve given myself a hundred times is the “Do one thing exceptionally well.” This is what we did.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

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I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. Every year, 15% of our engineers who were in the company left the company to go do something else; Startups, go to Facebook or Google, whatever it was they left for. Second team there worked on data engineering.