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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

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On the casino side what we developed was a machine which allowed you to play on four roulette wheels simultaneously. And we hadn’t eaten our dog food as a team, we weren’t people who really understood casinos that well and all of the difficulties that happen in the live environment. People, people in the team.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

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One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. In 2007, we launched Highrise; we launched a new product every year for like four or five years, basically. And it became quickly overwhelming for us to have so many products with a small team.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. We had high relevance.