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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. The 2012 New York startup community was very small, and it was very tight. How’s this working?”

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated. Stewart : You’re right. Jason : Got it.

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