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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Team expertise.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Facebook and Google provide an easy to use, high precision advertising engine that lets you target any cohort of people in the world. Be extremely mindful and diligent in understanding the security of companies you are outsourcing to. Understand the potential consequences of outsourcing to young startups. Google, Microsoft, Apple).

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

That was in no small part due to having a board that was aligned with David’s vision. It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares.

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G2.com’s Ryan Bonnici on selling to educated customers

Intercom, Inc.

I don’t know why I wanted a weird time frame like that, but I always knew that I loved advertising and marketing and growth and storytelling. If Yelp is for restaurant reviews, we’re that for software. We have real humans verify each review, and we’re getting close to a million verified reviews on our site.

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Intercom on Product: The dawn of a new decade

Intercom, Inc.

Where basically the real world is just advertisements, physical in-person advertisements, for things that you should really be buying online. Des: I remember an Alexa advertisement saying “When you come home, Alexa can read out your email.” And then the file system – no one seems to have made it work.

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PODCAST 78: What this Google Exec Wants You to Know About Success w/ Alison Wagonfeld of Google Cloud

Sales Hacker

We certainly do our own competitive review as we’re looking at our brand narrative—what do we stand for and how are we perceived in the market so that we know when we do our own brand awareness in advertising what we want to talk about. We enable our sales teams with compete materials on every dimension across every product.

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Brex’s Michael Tannenbaum on fintech growth strategies

Intercom, Inc.

For Brex, the first one was having their CFO run marketing, along with a few other things typical fintech startups wouldn’t do, like outdoor advertising. What actually made me most comfortable was when they said they were building their system like a ledger, so it can’t be messed up. They wanted to build something really big.