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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

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Those that had raised a large amount of money at a ridiculous valuation prior to April 2001 or dead. ” And, of course, I mean look at all the stuff they’ve done since: AWS, Mechanical Turk, the fulfillment model. But leadership is about doing the right things. Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead. I mean, literally.