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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

I’ve been working remotely since 2013, when I walked into the office of the best boss I’ve ever had and asked for permission to work remotely. Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. The Silicon Valley formula, distilled, goes as follows: Get enough initial traction to raise funding.

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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 Hire the VP of Marketing, MBA, the VP of Sales, MBA, the VP of Customer, MBA, the VP of Engineering, MBA, and now, the odds of any semblance of survival, let alone success, are vanishingly small at this point. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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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. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition. Second team there worked on data engineering. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. I had one year of Spanish in high school.