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Building A Billion Dollar Business – Managing Objectives Against Rapid Growth | Poppy Gustafsson | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace.

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Venture Funds Arrive in the Mastodon Space

Crafty CTO

Gruber had just written a short piece about Medium launching their own Mastodon server – with the fun, short domain name of me.dm. Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m I like paying for the services I use.

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Top App Development Agencies 2018–2019

The Product Coalition

Magazine has named it one of the ‘fastest growing private companies in America’?—?for One of its apps, Fox Sports, was the #1 app on the iOS App Store in 2018. Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Award in 2017 , five W3 awards, People’s Choice Webby Award in 2018, and the Appy Awards Winner?—?Gold for four consecutive years.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. And in meetings and conversations where those opportunities are being discussed, a sponsor makes sure your name pops up, and they’re maybe pushing those opportunities your way.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

And we had speakers that came out of music and fitness and all of these speakers we had and then we had one person that came out of marketing world Ryan Dice and we had one person that came out of the sales world and his name is Grant Cardone and we had a Grant come up. So I have like three mentors named Sam. Thank you sir.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

It’s from a 1962 report published by a man named Douglas Engelbart. The video operator for the demo was a guy named Stewart Brand , who among other things published a magazine at the time called the Whole Earth Catalog. Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of the US Congress in early 2018. Modern software is obsessed with tools.