Armbruster took years to hire engineering and customer success leaders
Max Armbruster · 1201 How he sold customers before hiring first head of engineering · Nov 7, 2018 · at 6:53
Talkpush founder Max Armbruster reflects on early technical and operational hiring bottlenecks after launching the company.
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“It took me two years from that time to finding My head of engineering. It took me three years to find my head of customer success.”
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