Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 3, 2024

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. While Boz celebrates startup culture, he also acknowledges its challenges.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

There are time-tested ways to accomplish this, including traditional open innovation, incubators, and startups. In 2006, we added Michigan and Northwestern to the program. Often, the schools are not very different from a technical perspective but can vary widely in terms of corporate relations and technology licensing offices.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. From there, Chris became involved in startups. ”I was their first paying customer.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

And there were lots of conferences for startups and lots of conferences for people that were raising funds and IPO going and all sorts of crazy old things. While we’re reminiscing in hindsight, if you were to go even further back all the way to 2006, before your first BoS conference, what would you tell yourself? I like to learn.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. I did see a question about Jeff Bezos Yes, Jeff Bezos owns a small piece of Basecamp, which we sold him in 2006.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

And this is a terrifying and disturbing thought because startups and entrepreneurs invest tons of money to build these products. Building Products Customers Need Proven Methods To Build Products Customers Need Working Backward Approach Dr. Werner Vogels , CTO of Amazon.com, wrote an article about Amazon’s working backward approach in 2006.

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