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

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2:44 James Avery, Kevel: And this around 2009 I started the company that became Adzerk right around when I went to my first business of software in San Francisco. And then we, we started to sell like big enterprises. April Dunford Positioning BoS USA. 2:43 Mark: Yeah. 2:57 Mark: That’s very timely.

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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. And then I’ve really only started companies as a byproduct of I have an obsessive personality and I channel that in a positive area which is like I’m obsessed with learning and getting better. Yeah it was. So I was nervous about that.

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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. Remember when social media was going to be all things about positive change for the world and people had big banners that said “thank you Facebook”? Information sharing is all positive. I do simple things right.