Schultz: Databricks scaled its marketing team to 175 over six years
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Rick Schultz, CMO at Databricks, discusses team expansion and recruiting velocity during hypergrowth phases at Databricks.
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“We've hired a 175 marketers on from almost a very tiny team in the last six years. And there were some years where we had to hire like 40 to 50 people on a base of 20 or 25.”
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