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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

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It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

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We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. You can also find your second act inorganically via acquisition as Twilio did with SendGrid. This one is niche, but it’s interesting, not doing mergers and acquisitions sooner. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007.