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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. I knew that meant he wouldn’t come back.

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Are DMs the new Cold Calls?

Duct Tape Marketing

He had immigrated from South Africa to America when I was a young kid, and he just had this work ethic that I still haven't seen rivaled Today. And we're like, well, we know how to hire on board and train sales teams. We ended up, our messaging ran into our CTO's messaging and what do you do? Where do we start?