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Humans Are Awesome/Terrible At Risk Management | Andy Ellis, Akamai | BoS USA 2019

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Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? And there’s dangerous things where you will kill the people with this like chat system we just built. And we just keep adding to this list it’s hundreds of items long for systems that no longer exist.

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

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Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. Alex Yang: The company where we work builds technology to fight global poverty. Our current product is a biometric fingerprint scanner paired with an Android app.

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Lessons on building a viral consumer app: The story of Saturn

Lenny Rachitsky

I recently heard about an app called Saturn that reached the top of the App Store charts—and stayed there. As I dug in and chatted with the founders, I was blown away by how methodically they were able to articulate what it takes to build a viral consumer app (particularly one targeted at Gen Z). This is incredibly rare.

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Black Women’s Business Collective founder Zanade Mann on advocating for your peers

Intercom, Inc.

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. ” And because of my background in business solutions, business development, marketing, communications, education, I’m used to planning.