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From Idea to Billion Dollar Business: the RingCentral Journey (Video + Transcript)

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And my retort was, for the first year, basically, well they’re the team that’s got my here so I’m going to stick with it, which I did for a year and then we kind of started turning around a little bit and saying, look, yeah, but are we growing as fast as we could be given the new reality of the ground? Vlad: So what’s the new reality?

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

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Nikos : In your case, I understand your company also shifted slightly on the market, like from SMB to bigger customers. As you said, people take it hard if suddenly you say, “Hey, this is your new EVP. It makes sense that that would be the role that comes in as the CTO. Craig : Yeah. That’s it.” What is good?