Walker: Dialpad reached a total headcount of 500 employees
Craig Walker · Dialpad CEO "We'll break $100m in 2020, comfortable burning $1m/mo, $45m in bank" · Jul 5, 2020 · at 15:26
Dialpad CEO Craig Walker breaks down the cloud communications platform's team size in July 2020.
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“Whole company is 500 folks.”
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