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Chili Piper’s Co-Founder Alina Vandenberghe on bootstrapping your way to success

Intercom, Inc.

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. And you did that to pay for your own education? I worked in healthcare, finance, media, in education. Liam: Okay.

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

Business of Software Conference

Prior to joining Simprints, I’ve worked mostly at the intersection of education and code. Having worked at Google and Code Academy and having founded a startup on my own that has taught web development to over 20,000 entrepreneurs. There’s inbound hiring and there’s outbound hiring. is only 5%.

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HubSpot’s Kieran Flanagan on product-led growth

Intercom, Inc.

We’re also good at inbound marketing, it turns out, so that has been pivotal to our success. They’re created by inbound demand. Then there are all of the problems your product can solve – that you can educate people on before they’re even aware of you as a company or aware of you as a product, right? Kieran : Yeah.