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Advice centers on product-market fit: prioritize the problem over the solution, watch actions not words, and ship early because done beats perfect. A user data repository plus data science models let the team predict payers within about 12 hours of engagement. The company stays profitable long before going public, uses cross-sell to grow lifetime value, and reports that the VC route makes sense only when targeting many hundreds of millions to a billion plus in exit.

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2. 0:11Karen Peacock
3. 0:26Chris Slowe
4. 1:26Dave Pickles Founder & CTO - The Trade De
5. 1:53Sridhar Vembu
6. 2:10Matt Mickiewicz

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