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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

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But back, but yeah, I mean, back-to-back in like 2007-2008 timeframe, I actually acquired a small ad network. Every day, every hour can be that and I think that’s the message. One of the overriding messages from BoS that you can take away is that lots of bad s s going to happen, lots of good s s going to happen.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. Enter Martina Lauchengco, a young product manager recently out of Stanford, whose job it was to help turn this around.

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

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DC : Probably one that’s not even officially a start up but I started a nice thing called ghost story and which is a browser plugin privacy browser plugin and I started that in 2008. Basically the fact that messaging from a technology standpoint I say hasn’t changed in my career. That’s the difference.