Von Sydow: above.ai operates with 20 people in engineering and product
Gustav von Sydow · 1247 This SaaS Product Has No Website but Does $3m in ARR, How? · Dec 23, 2018 · at 7:30
Gustav von Sydow, founder of Burt and above.ai, details the team size and composition dedicated to the spinout product above.ai.
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“So we have a, 20 or so person team, and it's mostly engineering and product.”
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