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

SaaStr

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. They’re a very important part of the team. Is that about the…?

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I just had this idea.

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

SaaStr

374: ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck shares how he built a business from scratch and grew it into one of the most successful IPOs of the 21st century—and what it was really like…the good, the bad, and most of all, the ugly. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. It is staggering.