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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Joel Gascoigne, founder & CEO 📍Started at Buffer in October 2010 as a Founder & CEO 🌎 Location: Colorado, U.S. ⏰ Time at Buffer: 13 years, 2 months Joel started Buffer in 2010 and has led the company through plenty of milestones (he wrote an in-depth article about it for Buffer’s 10th anniversary ).

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time? What does one look for in their first sales hire? But I got an introduction from a former colleague to Salesforce, and that was about a decade ago in 2010. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. Let’s go do it.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

of leadership roles. This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. That was actually a pretty tall order at the time. million apiece. Calendars are broken.

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PR for Startups : Interview with PR Expert Julija Jegorova

Teamgate

I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. That was in 2010, and we committed the company to go big with this cloud-based SaaS business model that would allow us to reach individuals anywhere in the world. We’re going to change things.

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