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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership.

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Give Your Team Away: CPO Lessons from Christopher O’Donnell, CPO at Hubspot

Gainsight

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. The understanding is that each Hub is powerful alone but better together.

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

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And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. I did see a question about Jeff Bezos Yes, Jeff Bezos owns a small piece of Basecamp, which we sold him in 2006.

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14 years building BoS

Business of Software Conference

While we’re reminiscing in hindsight, if you were to go even further back all the way to 2006, before your first BoS conference, what would you tell yourself? Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. So that’s a good thing. Kirk Baillie. Mark Littlewood.