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Inspiring Entrepreneurs: Ted Livingston’s rollercoaster ride as CEO of hit messaging startup Kik

The Next Web

At the time, RIM was the dominant smartphone company and Livingston settled into a “process-heavy” job within the company, where he worked tirelessly all hours. “By At the end of my four-month term, they brought me on part-time to run a team that built out a system around the software I’d developed at night.”.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

What was that, 2009, 2010? I think it was 2009 and 10. So, and then the second thing is like, occasionally, a lot of people would assume I'm a technical, like CTO of a company. I think that another one was really kind of partnering with local governments on this part and trying to help them. EB : Yeah.