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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded. If not now, then when?”

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What It Takes to Build an Enduring Business: Celebrating 20 Years of FastSpring

FastSpring

A brief history of FastSpring, with some fantastically nostalgic photos of the team throughout the years. A Brief History of FastSpring (With Photos) FastSpring was founded in 2005 with only $30,000, by a distributed team of four tech founders who only all got connected through the transitive property, Dan explains. Jump to podcast.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2025

Kellblog

A surprising number hail from the PayPal mafia. This harkens back to Jeff Hammerbachers 2011 quote, the best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. Working for the algo isnt necessarily bad. This is good news for marketing teams that kept an active PR function and agency during the dark times.