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Braze co-founder Mark Ghermezian: “Whatever CRM is, that’s what we need to build”

Zendesk

In 2008, when iPhones were just coming into the market and mobile apps were the new talk of the developer community, Ghermezian had an idea: to build a bridge between the growing population of app developers and their end users. The term CRM —customer relationship management—is everywhere now, but it wasn’t in the early days of Appboy.

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The Growth Hacking Playbook: Your Ultimate List of Growth Hack Resources

Hubspot Sales

Its founder and CEO, Sean Ellis, was pretty much a "growth hacker" before that label was really a thing -- since 2008, he’s served in interim growth roles at companies like Eventbrite and Dropbox, helping them scale in their early stages. In fact, he's been known to quote the words of investor Paul Graham: "Startups = Growth."