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

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So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. In 2011 we raised money. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money.

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Behind Every Great Product

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Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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14 years building BoS

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There was only one team member brave enough to take him on. He wasn’t doing a bad job at all, Kirk Baillie. So can I start with the most memorable in a bad way? which was way back in 2011, I think and we were running a conference in Boston. Greg Baugues, Manager & Developer Community at Twilio.

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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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How do you motivate and lead a team when the future is uncertain? I will talk about managing through good times and bad times so don’t worry there will be good times before I get to the bad stuff. Being British we like a bit of bad news. But my personal journey is a developer to CEO. This is a B2B product.