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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walk

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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Monetize Your Knowledge To Start Your First Business – Shane Sams with Flipped Lifestyle

Smart Hustle Magazine

Maybe it’s time to leverage the power of community. A few questions I have before we dive into the principles of what Flipped Lifestyle means, and I think if I said it enough times, I would say that thing you said, getting 100 people to pay you $50 a month to make $60,000 a year. 83 times 1,000 is a million.

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HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale

Y Combinator

Brian Halligan is the CEO and cofounder of HubSpot. 8:25 – Pricing in the early days. 12:00 – Important early features. 39:30 – Early metrics they tracked. 41:30 – How Brian’s changed as a CEO from the beginning. 42:24 – What was the hardest thing to give up as CEO?