Technical Ops + Compliance, From Bootstrap to Scale with Richard Crowley

You haven’t sold into an enterprise until you run into compliance and SOC II audits. At boldstart, our founders are facing these issues earlier and earlier in their life cycle and if managed correctly and taken care of in advance, it can streamline your sales process and minimize disruption.

Given this huge need, we reached out to friend and advisor Richard Crowley who built Slack’s technical operations and compliance from scratch. He joined Slack as the 22nd employee initially helping support a user base of its 35,000 simultaneous users. During his time at Slack, Richard built the technical operations team as the company grew to over 10,000,000 simultaneous users and 2,000 employees.

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