Yampolskiy: Weekend project widget remains SecurityScorecard's top lead generator
Alex Yampolskiy · Customer Empathy: The key to 10Xing your company · May 9, 2023 · at 8:13
Aleksandr Yampolskiy, CEO of SecurityScorecard, explains how an unrequested weekend project by an early developer outperformed multi-million-dollar engineering initiatives.
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“He just went and coded it on a weekend and became our number one lead generation tool, actually even today.”
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