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

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But you know in 2009 we started performing two thousand like 18 months later. I keep learning part of learning is having access to different role models different mentors and then being able to look behind the curtain and say oh that’s how they do it right. And by the fifth time you’re certifiable at this point.

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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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And so when that plane landed on the Hudson River back in 2009, the news broke on our website called TweetMeme. We didn’t start with this proposition. We actually started with a proposition to build a news site that was powered by Twitter. And in order to get more news onto that site we invented the Retweet button.