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Patrick Prothe
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Santos and Nathan argued about how to use the infusion of cash. Santos wanted much of it to go to marketing; Nathan thought it should go to coders to strengthen the back end. But within six months of the funding announcement, the arguing stopped — Nathan left.
Courtney Rubin • How a Hot $100 Million Design Startup Collapsed Overnight
Isaac Friedman-Heiman
@ifh
Hurley decided these calls for creativity were too daunting, arguing that they should encourage “real personal clips that are taken by everyday people.”
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
“If you can’t figure out how to measure it,” recalled one executive there, “you just pretend it doesn’t exist.”
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McElory's famous memo sent to dedicated brand teams at P&G.
Sriram Krishnan • P&G Marketing Memo
Google professed a sense of moral purity—as exemplified by its informal motto, “Don’t be
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Each day the team had a simple edict: don’t let YouTube.com crash.