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The Transatlantic Struggle Building great products on both sides of the pond Kārlis Lauva // FullContact

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The Transatlantic

Struggle

Building great products on both sides of the pond

Kārlis Lauva // FullContact

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● We are solving the world's contact information problem

● Consumer apps for the web, iOS and Android

● APIs for enterprises

● Raised 19M in funding from some of the best investors

on the planet

Who we are?

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December 2012: Cobook for iOS

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February 2015: FullContact for iOS

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How we got there?

From 6 people in TechHub

To 52 people in Denver & Riga

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By being awesome with people

And having company values!

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“We are a team”

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Fixing global problems & working

globally

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“Respect every person”

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“Move at the speed of trust”

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Without trusting each other, it would be

impossible to operate

on a global scale

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“Communicate with candor”

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Communication across 9 time zones

● Slack

● Google Docs & Hangouts

● Pivotal Tracker

● 7Geese

● GitHub

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“Never stop improving”

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Employees grow with the company

● Investing in employee improvement

● Presence in related tech communities

● Code reviews and internal training

● Paid paid vacations & getting off the grid

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“Be customer focused”

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Helping customers succeed around the

clock

● 5 CS people in both Denver and Riga

● Days on the helpdesk for all employees

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“Keep shipping”

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What we have in store

● Business Card Reader for iOS and Android

● FullContact webapp

● FullContact for Gmail

● Contact data APIs

● FullContact for iOS

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Coming soon!

Up-to-date contacts everywhere.

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We're hiring!

● Like to solve challenging problems?

● Believe that coding is an art?

● Engineering positions in Riga

● Android, iOS and JVM-based backend systems

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Thanks!

Kārlis Lauva, 2015

@FullContactInc