Russ Heddleston is the co-founder and former CEO of DocSend, which he sold to Dropbox for $165 million. Russ has a background of product engireering and he has also worked as a product manager in Dropbox and Meta.
In this episode we talk with Russ about his experience of starting a company, pricing products, strategy of gaining growth and much mpre.
Show notes:
0:00 About Russ Heddleston
0:55 Starting DocSend
08:02 Figuring out the right company concept
11:58 Advice for starting a company
17:42 Discovery sessions
24:50 Determinating founder roles
29:30 Tips for building a team
35:12 Scaling a company
44:28 Product pricing
47:00 Gaining growth
50:38 Final advice
53:20 Outro
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