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Why do serial entrepreneurs keep jumping back in? What things might you learn the third, fourth, or fifth time around?To find out, Extra
Crunch Managing Editor Eric Eldon spoke to Drift CEO and founder David Cancel at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco
Cancel has spent more than 20 years founding SaaS companies, with exits including Compete (acquired by TNS), Lookery (Acknowledge), Ghostery
(Evidon), and Performable (Hubspot.)In their thirty-minute conversation, they cover everything from finding your first customers, to what
happen, almost every single time, is there would be this awkward pause
willing to recommend his own employees.His reasoning is twofold; on one side, it means he knows his teams are made up of people who want to
And if Eric wants to go, he should go, because we only want people who actually [want] to be there
One of the things I would say, and I still say to everyone: Look, if you come on board, and work with us for some days, if you want to leave
at any point and start a company, myself and my co-founder Elias will be the first checks in whatever you want to start, no questions
marketing within LinkedIn, which I think is a place that I would advise people to go spend time on now