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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. Going B2C was daunting and not in our core DNA,” Kaufer remarked. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.