Elias Torres is the Co-Founder and CEO of Agency, the AI agent for customer success teams. Prior to Agency, Elias was the Co-Founder of Drift, a company he sold to Vista for $1.2BN Before that he started Performable, which he sold to HubSpot.
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In Today’s Episode We Discuss:
00:00 Intro
02:54 Do Rich Founders Make Better Founders: How Backgrounds Shape You
11:34 Why are Incumbents Slower than Ever
30:43 Why Was Selling Drift For $1.2BN a Massive Failure
34:01 How to Hire F******* Rockstars
39:58 The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make in Hiring
52:33 Everything You Think You Know About Working Parents is Wrong
01:07:27 Quickfire
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