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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. But it was interesting, because it really was like the first Boston within 2009 was when I decided, like, I’ve got to get an offer ad network business.

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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. 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. It has a lot around servant leadership about focus on the customer and what have you.

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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. And that really is an ethos for a leadership style that you want. We had one of our execs in our New York office. We didn’t start with this proposition. Thinking things through. But maybe they were volunteers.