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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Alf Ruppert Yes, it started because I know the very first piece of software we did for Daylite was to connection for phone systems, so that you can push a button and then call out or if somebody’s calling in, you can see which customers calling in. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

As for Andrew, he started his first software development company at the age of 18 and has been running Wrike for the last 13 years alongside advisory roles with both Ditto and Appulate. Before this transaction, Andrew had raised over $45m in funding from the likes of Rory @ Scale and Bain Capital Ventures just to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

The easiest way for us to think about it is just if you took eight hours of in-person meetings a day that maybe we previously would have been if we were at a big CPG company or a bank or a retailer or a life sciences company, that whole model has blown up. Previously, it just wasn’t the case.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio. We needed to engage with our customers in clever and creative ways or integrate it with the software we’re building. Every time it happened I would say I’m, I’m a software developer.