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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Silicon Valley and the media industry that surrounds it values youth. This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. This is true in consumer but it’s also true in enterprise software. The second “exit”?—?Adly?—?innovated

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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And then secondly was the text.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. I question your leadership as a CEO, not because you don’t have the technical skills, but because you don’t recognize what you don’t know and let someone more qualified talk about such topics.

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