SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. 18 hires a year I had to make in San Francisco.

Engineering 184

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

If you haven’t signed up on the mobile app or whatever, it’s cool. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. Please sign up. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead. I mean, literally.

Sales Hiring 247

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Yeah, so, so share your success, if you want to say one sentence what else Yes, then trying to create that’s maybe a tough thing because he can we can give no recipe to do that, but trying to to make a comfortable, comfortable environment for everybody that that you are different from other companies.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” And so maybe 2030 would be the next mobile giant is actually out of Africa because that’s how you innovate out of that problem.

Sales Hiring 256

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