Starred Stopped Selling Legacy Product in Early 2020 to Focus
Lars van Wieren · Starred Looking to Raise $4m Series A for HR Tech · Oct 10, 2020 · at 11:35
Lars van Wieren, founder and CEO of Starred, explains why the company's legacy customer satisfaction tool was removed from their website.
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“You can't find our legacy product any longer. So that's also something we changed beginning of this year. We said, if you really want to focus, we should stop selling in our legacy business.”
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