Benjamin Humphrey shares the highs, lows and in-betweens of leaving Atlassian to start Dovetail. A frank account of product entrepreneurship.

 

Why did Dovetail choose to shift bootstrapping to VC funding?

What is Benjamin not willing to compromise on as Dovetail grows?

How does Benjamin manage self-doubt and other people‘s expectations?

 

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Who is Benjamin Humphrey?

 

Benjamin is the co-founder and CEO of Dovetail, the elegant, fast-growing and cloud-based research repository, collaboration and analysis platform. Before founding Dovetail, Benjamin was a Lead Designer at Atlassian, Australia’s most well-known and most successful software-as-a-service company. Benjamin also invested time at AVOS, a company led by YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen.

 

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Find Benjamin here:

 

Website: https://humphreybc.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/humphreybc/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/humphreybc

 

Dovetail:

 

Website: https://dovetailapp.com/

Blog: https://dovetailapp.com/blog/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/hidovetail/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hidovetail/

 

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Host: Brendan Jarvis

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