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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

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” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” ” That all goes to our entire company on the Wiki, so you can download that file, you can read it yourself, you can look through it, you can actually raise on our company Wiki a disagreement about it. Can you fix that and educate them?

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

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And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” And again, they’re trying to compare companies. ” Well, fast forward 10 years later, that seems like such a naive thing to say today. As a team together.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Airtable and Shopify Plus — October 25, 2019

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” You went into this new re-education process of, “I had no idea what that was.” That was the aha moment for a lot of companies where they were like, “Holy crap, this thing might be real.” ” “A hundred million dollars.” ” I was like, “Yeah. Last year Shopify did 14 billion.”