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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And for the past 17 years, Alf has grown the company without any external funding and maintained a strong employee retention rate. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. Jeff Lawson: Sure.