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June 16, 2021 @ 9:30 am - 11:30 am PDT
FreeStartup lessons learned: from seed to $450M exit with Giles Palmer
Founder Giles Palmer has spent the last 13 years as the CEO of Brandwatch. His brand sentiment and social media listening startup was recently acquired by Cision for $450 Million. In this piece, he offers advice to other founders about what he would have done differently to grow his company based on what he knows now.
Register for Giles Palmer’s global keynote for more reflections on his founder’s journey, such as:
- Differentiating your startup in an up-and-coming niche
- Assessing risk and how it informs your decision-making as a founder
- Successful team-building as you scale
Presenter:
Giles is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch – a company devised to help Organisations find and engage with online conversations that matter.
It’s early days for text mining and understanding online conversations, but they have been working in the field since 2006 and have come a long way.
His goals are to turn Brandwatch into a fantastic business backed by amazing technology and people
Specialties: Starting a business, Managing growth, running a software business, building sales and managing customers expectations and satisfaction, motivating and incentivising a team, choosing the right people for the right positions, loyalty to those who bring a winning attitude
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