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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, culminating in their exit to Monster Worldwide in February 2014. Pete’s also the author of Founding Sales , the canonical writing on early stage startup sales, and prior to founding Atrium, Pete founded TalentBin, which ended in the exit to Monster Worldwide in February, 2014.

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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 2014.). We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. 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 rationalized it.

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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. First off, in 2013 we made our first acquisition. The second decision was the next year, 2014. We decided to take a chance, and we hired three engineers in Nashville in 2014. I had one year of Spanish in high school.