Keboola scaled initially via referrals from future unicorns like Productboard
Pavel Dolezal · Congrats! Bootstrapped founder hits $5m · May 5, 2022 · at 6:10
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Pavel Dolezal, founder of Keboola, describes the organic referral-driven growth Keboola experienced from early startup clients.
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“We started to scale first couple of years by referrals, You know, people start to use us. They start to grow their own companies, right? And then some of them are now, now, now unicorns, like product board, or a rally group in Europe, right?”
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