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

Business of Software Conference

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. You know that was fun times and so by the time I sort of Drift to fast forward I was obsessed about some trends that were happening; one of them was messaging. E-commerce is dead.

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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

Business of Software Conference

We made sloppy decisions on hiring because we know we needed someone to fill that role and we’d lower the quality bar so we could get someone in there because we justify to ourselves well, it’s really hard to hire function x here, so this guy I’m sure he’ll be coached to be great. Thinking things through.