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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Pete. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. Harry Stebbings. Pete Kazanjy. My word, I’m so excited for this one. That sounds good.

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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. But, as it turns out over the course of time, what I didn’t realize is, I was in the process to try and hire every single engineer we had. I had one year of Spanish in high school.