Caputa: Databox fired its US team but kept its Slovenian developers
Peter Caputa · 1497 He Grew Hubspot Partner Program, Now $91k in MRR at DataBox · Aug 30, 2019 · at 7:50
Peter Caputa describes the restructuring and team makeup of Databox when he became CEO in 2017.
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“The previous founder had gotten rid of the go-to market team, basically parted ways to the, with the go-to market team, which is all in the U.S., but the majority of the product and customer support team, which was in Slovenia was retained, and so I joined, you know, it was like, 12 people on the team and they were all, they're all amazing, just all still with us.”
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