Koho Hired Shopify's First Coach Who Scaled Company to 3,000 Staff
Dan Eberhard · Why you Need a Performance Coach | Dan Eberhard, Founder of Koho · PMF Show · Feb 15, 2022 · at 8:47
Dan Eberhard is the founder and CEO of Koho, discussing how he selected executive coaches to scale the fintech startup.
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“Coach number four that we worked with. We hired him because he had been the coach at Shopify and the first coach at Shopify from when they went from 60 to 3000 people.”
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