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Facebook Workplace’s Julien Codorniou on turning companies into communities

Intercom, Inc.

Julien: It’s important to find your niche and to find product market fit. As you can probably see, I’m not a fashionista (laughs), but I love entrepreneurship, and I love media in general. Facebook has been Customer Zero for Workplace – and the only customer – for many, many years. That’s how it happened.

Scale 151
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

But I do want to discuss some of the details of repeat entrepreneurship, because it’s rare that I have someone with as many incredible experiences in terms of that back pocket as you. Godard Abel: It is when you find that product market fit, but really I think the way you see it is your sales reps just start to crush their numbers.

Scale 149
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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 was wondering what should we talk about?