Building an Oracle integration was a 'dumb' mistake for PandaDoc
Mikita Mikado · 1216 PandaDoc CEO: "We've passed $1m in monthly bookings" · Nov 22, 2018 · at 16:42
Mikita Mikado, CEO of document automation platform PandaDoc, shares past product experiments that failed.
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“I mean, it's not dumb if you're not, you know, if you're not in, if you're not an SMB SaaS company, but it was pretty dumb for PandaDoc.”
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