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      Marketing and Growth Strategies for Startups


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      About the Talk

      If you’re working at a startup and trying to build out your marketing function, then this talk is for you.

      What You’ll Learn

      • Building out a marketing function at a startup
      • Defining marketing strategies and metrics
      • Scaling a marketing team for immediate and long-term business needs

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      Presenter

      Fung-Lin Wu is the Director of Retention Marketing at MongoDB. She is responsible for driving user activation and engagement throughout a customer’s lifecycle to retain customers and to reduce churn. She has over 10 years of marketing experience in demand generation, retention, and marketing operations.

      Prior to MongoDB, she worked at companies including Datadog, Managed by Q, and DigitalOcean, helping to build marketing functions from the ground up. Fung-Lin received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.



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      Scaling Up Engineering: Managing People, Process, and Technology at Each Growth Stage


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      “The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”

      About the Talk

      Al Sene, VP of Engineering at DigitalOcean, shares how you can avoid the pitfalls of a rapidly growing engineering team and anticipate key inflection points when scaling. Get tips on managing resources across people, process, and technology at each growth stage.

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      About the Presenter

      Al Sene is VP of Engineering at DigitalOcean. He leads DigitalOcean’s Product Development teams, including Compute, Networking, Storage, Developer Productivity, and Data Platforms & Sciences. He is responsible for driving innovation and velocity in key services and products to meet the evolving demands of DigitalOcean customers. Prior to DigitalOcean, he held VP of Engineering roles at DDN and NexGen Storage – which was acquired by Fusion-io and SanDisk. He has also held several technical and management roles at Hewlett-Packard. He studied Computer Science at St. Cloud State University and received his MBA from Colorado State University.



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