Husid: Miro Scaled From 240 to 1,600 Employees During the Pandemic
Andrey Husid · Finding Opps in Every Challenge: From Humble Beginnings to 30 Million Users with Miro CEO · Aug 9, 2022 · at 17:54
Andrey Husid, CEO of visual collaboration platform Miro, explains the challenge of remote onboarding during hypergrowth.
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“We scale from two 40 to like almost 1600 now.”
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