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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts.

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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. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Andrew Filev. Andrew Filev. Andy Wilson.

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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.