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

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It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. Which was then implemented in 2007. This is like late 2007. It went from zero to seventeen hundred people in a year.

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

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Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. They didn’t feel good for the first almost three years Compete, and we sold Compete in 2007 to a company WPP a London based giant. ML : So Drift aside which of your four startup are you most proud of.

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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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Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker, CEO, DataSift.