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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

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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. Of course, not at scale.

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SaaStr Podcast #356 with Atrium Co-Founder Pete Kazanjy

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Peter Kazanjy: Most of the literature is really for existing sales leadership or sales professionals, but not for people who have never sold before. So that’s why I ended up writing Founding Sales , and that led into Atrium, and also led into Modern Sales, which is the sales operations, leadership, and enablement community that I run.

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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 company was 145 people, 40 of which were engineers. We had been still growing in San Francisco, one extra office in Mendoza, and in scaling our company we were finding that customer service was a really big expense for us.