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The Transatlantic Struggle

The Transatlantic Struggle

Presentation about FullContact & it's values for TechHub Riga March 2015 meetup.

Kārlis Lauva

March 12, 2015
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  1. The Transatlantic
    Struggle
    Building great products on both sides of the pond
    Kārlis Lauva // FullContact

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  2. ● We are solving the world's contact information problem
    ● Consumer apps for the web, iOS and Android
    ● APIs for enterprises
    ● Raised 19M in funding from some of the best investors
    on the planet
    Who we are?

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  4. December 2012: Cobook for iOS

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  6. February 2015: FullContact for iOS

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  9. How we got there?
    From 6 people in TechHub
    To 52 people in Denver & Riga

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  10. By being awesome with people
    And having company values!

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  11. “We are a team”

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  13. Fixing global problems & working
    globally

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  15. “Respect every person”

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  16. “Move at the speed of trust”

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  17. Without trusting each other, it
    would be impossible to operate
    on a global scale

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  18. “Communicate with candor”

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  19. Communication across 9 time zones
    ● Slack
    ● Google Docs & Hangouts
    ● Pivotal Tracker
    ● 7Geese
    ● GitHub

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  21. “Never stop improving”

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  22. Employees grow with the company
    ● Investing in employee improvement
    ● Presence in related tech communities
    ● Code reviews and internal training
    ● Paid paid vacations & getting off the grid

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  23. “Be customer focused”

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  24. Helping customers succeed around
    the clock
    ● 5 CS people in both Denver and Riga
    ● Days on the helpdesk for all employees

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  25. “Keep shipping”

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  26. What we have in store
    ● Business Card Reader for iOS and Android
    ● FullContact webapp
    ● FullContact for Gmail
    ● Contact data APIs
    ● FullContact for iOS

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  27. Coming soon!
    Up-to-date contacts everywhere.

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  28. We're hiring!
    ● Like to solve challenging problems?
    ● Believe that coding is an art?
    ● Engineering positions in Riga
    ● Android, iOS and JVM-based backend systems

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  29. Thanks!
    Kārlis Lauva, 2015
    @FullContactInc

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