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

SaaStr

We’ve been a company since 2016. I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. But, there were a few things that were true about event bright and the environment and trying to hire in San Francisco in that moment. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.

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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

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. “From Day 0 to IPO: What Went to Plan, What Most Certainly Didn’t” at SaaStr Annual 2016 from saastr. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company.