A clean slate

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Company starts in 2012 to build a virtualised, distributed videoconferencing system sold into customer datacenters and ends up public on the Norwegian stock market; architecture runs on virtualized x86 servers forming a distributed media-processing cluster, with automated integration tests that run against third‑party endpoints. Release cadence averages about three major versions a year (current is 36.2) and one to two minors, and observed commit rate per developer falls by a factor of three to four as headcount grows.

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1. 0:00Clean Slate introduction
2. 1:28Pexip in 2012 context
3. 4:23Custom hardware challenges
4. 7:01Virtualization and scalability shift
5. 8:48Software versioning trade-offs
6. 13:42Hiring strategies
7. 18:42Gender diversity insights
8. 21:09Productivity metrics
9. 26:51Flaws in commit rate
10. 31:27Reliable development processes
11. 35:02Release cycles balance
12. 37:54People and trust in startups
13. 40:26Cross-team communication
14. 43:20Learning from teams
15. 44:59Q&A

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