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Hello Sydney – a giant leap for Intercom’s remote APAC team

Intercom, Inc.

I joined intercom remotely two years ago as the first person in Sydney, and since then we have scaled the APAC team (lovingly referred to as the APAC Alliance) to almost 20 people across 4 countries. To enable that, we built out a distributed team around the world with a handful of teammates sprinkled across APAC working remotely.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Hey, I want you to go talk to somebody else and refer somebody into that job because you’ve networked so much. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead. I mean, literally.

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

SaaStr

” “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. ” “Our benefits are terrible.”

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

SaaStr

How does Liat think about aligning both the personal ambitions of the person with the wider objectives of the company? Why does Liat reject the notion of “hands off leadership?”. Companies often worry about whether to go horizontal or vertical, how does Liat personally think about this choice? Is there ever a right way to do it?