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The Outstanding Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco 2019

Mind the Product

Michael leads product and design at Medium, which he joined when it acquired his startup Talkshow Industries. He was the VP of Product at blogging platform Six Apart, created new media properties and influential content creators as VP Artist Development at Say Media, and then led Product and Design at Twitter from 2012 to 2014.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey. If you go back to 2014, when we were building that part of our product, it was kind of the Wild West back then as far as browser extensions go.

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International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women of Modus

Modus Create

While doing this, I started reading and learning about testing and that’s how I became a QA engineer, getting the ISTQB foundation level approved in 2014. I spent several years as a QA for startups and big companies too, which I loved. Yasemin Cidem – Front End Engineer. Location: Eskisehir, Turkey.

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

Business of Software Conference

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. ML : Describe David Cancel.