Patrick O'Shaughnessy

I heard somewhere that for a long time on Slack, your label was recruiter.

This is pretty cool.

I think it still is.

It still is.

You mentioned the idea of building an employer brand for a decade plus.

Talk about those two things, how they go hand in hand and what you've done that's been most successful at building the employer brand.

Why is testing yourself so addictive?

What is it about it as a function that you and the team so enjoy?

Have you learned anything surprising about yourself or about how the world works in all these years of testing yourself?

So if we rewind time now to the early days where you've got this core insight that zero to one is really hard and maybe somewhat random, you have this skill set that probably is really valuable in one to end, and you're going to go acquire businesses and apply the talent and skill set to make the products way better, bigger, faster, everything.

What is the first couple years of that process like?

How are you looking for companies?

How do you have enough money?

I'm sure you must have started small.

What were some of the first acquisitions?

Talk us through the early lessons and early activity in the M&A markets.

A guy in an app.

So in those early days, what were the key lessons that you were learning?

What did you start to realize were the right attributes of an app, a piece of software, a company that you might acquire?

What were the things that you were after?