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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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Over the course of that fund, I recruited in, who is effectively my co-founder, he runs Amplify with me, is Mike Dauber. Then, over the course of that fund, we had promoted up David Byer to partner and recruited Lenny Pruss away from Redpoint to join us. Just like a whole bunch of people said, “I’ll never hire remote.”

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. And I started as an engineer and as an MBA and frankly in business school back then they didn’t even have a class on sales.