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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

million in 2013 to $115.9 One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. I was hell-bent on moving to San Diego, and had every intention of leaving a job that I loved if the answer was “no.”

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. For roles like mobile engineers or data engineers, we tried to hire a database administrator for a long time and struggle with that. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition. I had one year of Spanish in high school.