Closem operates with five staff and two full-time engineers
Richard Miles · $30k in MRR but wouldn't sell for $750k, would you? · Sep 9, 2022 · at 13:27
Richard Miles, founder of sales automation platform Closem, discusses the company's lean team structure with Nathan Latka.
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“We have four or five, five and a half people. Neither my partner or I are technical. We have two, two great developers. yeah, those are full time.”
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