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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. Julien: It’s important to find your niche and to find product market fit. That’s how it happened.

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The Hard Thing About Your Brand and Funnel

Hacking Revenue

If you have the time and knowledge to do everything I mentioned in this essay, this is probably where you should spend 80% of your time once you reached product/market fit. Where do you go from here? Getting the brand right, especially with no brand management experience is not an easy task.

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

SaaStr

We could talk about CAK and LTV, and economics, and fundraising, and entrepreneurship, and SaaS and engineering, and product management, but instead I chose to talk about culture and people, which is a little bit of an odd topic for a CTO to pick up. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.”