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FEBRUARY 28, 2020

311: Karl Sun is the Founder & CEO @ Lucidchart, a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. Listen to the start of the episode for a promo code to our upcoming events! How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists?

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JULY 28, 2021

We’re continuing to innovate. My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. It is much more painful to have to fire people and contract as a company than it is to grow.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls.

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AUGUST 15, 2020

And whether it’s Algolia, Gainsight, New Relic or anything else, you’re being measured on value, not just adoption and at the same time, even outside of COVID, there’s all these other trends happening. Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. The good thing is … this is the good news, bad news. Want to see more content like this?

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MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how do you transition the team, how do you not loose each and every friendship that you’ve ever had?

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AUGUST 22, 2020

And the purpose, obviously, was to enhance face-to-face collaboration, innovation, and productivity. Jen Nguyen: And we create this entire infrastructure to support this 1-to-1 seating model so that everyone under one location could be there at the same time. And so, once we’re given that choice, what do we actually decide?

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