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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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After TalentBin was acquired, I ended up writing a book on startup sales and sales for founders called Founding Sales. Like a VP of engineering would go to some conference, and hear someone on stage talking about how they need to be spending all their time doing recruiting, etc, etc. This is in Founding Sales , as a result.

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

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I started right at the end of 2011, and I started in the role of VP of engineering. The other thing is, if you have a person on the team who is very fluent in English, you can have communication happening in the local market, in Spanish and still get the communication back to San Francisco just fine.