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Comment · 5 years ago
Really great idea - excited to try this out!
Comment · 6 years ago
Author here, our company also went through YC in 2015.
Email me with any questions: chris at laskie.co
Comment · 6 years ago
I just did a short thread on how we went from $0 -> $2m ARR with founder-led B2B sales.
https://twitter.com/ChrisJBakke/status/1309197276061945857
There was a lot of interest, so I wrote a longer-form version that I'm sending out next week, and I'm happy to send to you if you email me.
The biggest things are: learn by doing + learn via mentorship.
Feel free to email any specific questions and I'll do my best to help answer.
Comment · 6 years ago
Thanks for the context.
"Management was basically incredibly incompetent, for a long time, and were so unfair to employees at the company that they felt this was the only option"
Why not just quit and get a new role? I don't really understand how being unionized under terrible management is desirable.
Comment · 7 years ago
Gmail is 15 years old.
Maps is ~15 years old (and was the combination of several acquisitions in the maps space: Keyhole, Where2, Zipdash, etc.)
Chrome is 11 years old + extremely successful, but my point still stands.
Comment · 7 years ago
Almost every successful Google product over the last 15 years has been the result of acquiring an already-built product and marketing + distributing it well: Youtube, Nest, Waze, Doubleclick, Android.
Products that are organically created within Google (even Google Hire, created via acquihire) have a pretty awful track record.
Chris Bakke
Co-Founder @ Laskie.com
3x exits to Indeed, Zillow, and Knotel
Email: chrisjbakke at gmail dot com