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How to scale your career alongside your startup: Mike Boufford’s lessons after 10 years at Greenhouse

The Review by First Round

For our first episode of 2023, our guest is Mike Boufford , CTO of Greenhouse , an applicant tracking system and recruiting platform. He wrote the first line of code at Greenhouse in May 2012, and he’s still there — over a decade later. Mike has a unique career as an engineering leader.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.” “Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted.

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Reflections on leadership, culture, & growth | Kieran O’Neill | BoS Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

He’s co-founder/CEO of his fourth startup, Thread. million customers before being acquired in 2012. Kieran is probably a serial entrepreneur – he founded his first business aged 15, (sold age 19 for $1.25m), his second and third were also acquired. He’s a member of the Forbes, Drapers and Financial Times 30 Under 30 lists. Video below.

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Give Your Team Away: CPO Lessons from Christopher O’Donnell, CPO at Hubspot

Gainsight

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. From there, Chris became involved in startups. ”I was their first paying customer.

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The Ballad of Bull Cook, A Wacky Book

Crafty CTO

Herter’s, The Business In 1937, George Herter launched his disruptive startup—a mail-order outdoor-sports business—in the spare rooms over his father’s Waseca, Minnesota dry goods store. So, yes, a disruptive startup it was. I found that Bull Cook on Amazon was published in 2012 (!!) Disruptive?

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Best-rated Sacramento Web Design Companies to Work With in 2022

UX Studio: Product Management

Sacramento web design services for startups and enterprises How much does it cost to work with web design companies in Sacramento? In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few. Web Sauce Studio.

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What Do You Really Need: In-House Team, Outsourcing or a Tech Partner?

The Product Coalition

The history of Slack, the most widely used workplace messaging app, is often referred to as a classic startup success story. Six months after the release in September 2012, the company had to shut down the game servers and admit it couldn’t compete with other online RPGs that already had sustainably growing fan communities and profits.