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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

As I’m now 10 years in, I feel like I can *officially* say that I have significant “experience”—I’ve definitely packed a wide range of experiences into the past decade. There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Hopefully jack up your growth rate enough to be acquired for a massive sum of money.

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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

Let’s assume the probability of success for a SaaS company is roughly one percent, and that formula is true, given some definition of success, right? The issue the SMBs had was, “Well, I’m a 20-person consulting company. One of the byproducts of this all-in-one strategy is the product tends to suck.

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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. We kept up pretty well, but we definitely had some challenges with that. And, how does he close engineers? And, how does he close engineers? We are super aligned on strategy. Otherwise, we just got none of them.