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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)

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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. On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 7, if you round up from 6.3.

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

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I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The company was 145 people, 40 of which were engineers. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition. A little more about me, as I’ve said, I’ve been with Eventbrite since 2011. Everything was based in San Francisco.