Edith Harbaugh (LaunchDarkly) - Software is Hard Work
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Video Series
English - October 30, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 2.51 MB Video - ★★★★ - 16 ratingsCourses Education Business entrepreneurship stanford stvp Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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LaunchDarkly now helps over 1,000 customers — including major companies like Atlassian and BMW — release code, monitor and manage features, and make data-driven decisions about software functionality. But growth didn’t come overnight, explains CEO and co-founder Edith Harbaugh. She describes the multi-year slog of scaling up a B2B company, and demonstrates how she made the most of a number of less-than-ideal jobs, building a diverse toolkit of skills that ultimately contributed to her success as a founder and CEO. She urges entrepreneurs to draw encouragement from small wins, especially in the early stages, when customers are few and far between.