Dots
product on 5 shows · 4 statements across 2 episodes · said 22 times in 5 episodes since 2013
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Lenny's Podcast 1 
the MAD Podcast 1 
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Russo: Contractor software adoption creates a recurring sales flywheel into state DOTs
“We go after the ICPs in a state, and we get them using it. That bleeds us into the DOTs, project engineers, who are interested because they're better with it. You get in with the DOT district, they add more projects, it tumbles back over, and they say, well, t…”
Mobile game Dots began as an art project at Betaworks incubator
“Dots started as sort of this little art project that was born at Betaworks which is an incubator investor in New York City.”
Playdots accidentally blew its $10,000 Facebook marketing budget in one hour
“We had, like, a really small budget, and I think there was actually a mistake, and it all got, like, instantly, like, instantly bought a ton of players. But it was, like, 10,000 dollars, I think.”