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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

One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts. This is what we did.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve close to 3,000 server distributed in more than 70 data centers and we are between 200 and 300 billion API call amounts. Like we distribute the data by a factor of three to make sure like we have some high availability. So we have one API, it’s crucial data. We then flip the company to the US.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

Best of all, the types of smart people that you run into in tech run the gamut from highly technical software engineers, to massively creative designers and marketers, to analytical data wizzes and finance experts. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details.

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

SaaStr

I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. For roles like mobile engineers or data engineers, we tried to hire a database administrator for a long time and struggle with that. Second team there worked on data engineering.