Russ Heddleston
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Podcast Appearances
And you're right.
We totally decided to sell the company and to shop it around.
So that just made the most sense for us.
Oh, yeah, for sure.
The assets of the company weren't acquired, but we were all incredibly happy with the outcome.
I was the product manager for the Pages team.
So anything with a like button on it, that's not a human being, like a profile.
So that's a pretty big swath of what Facebook does is included under Pages.
Brands and personalities both have Facebook pages.
So both of them have likes.
You can't add them as a friend.
And at the time, it was a very small team at Facebook.
And I got to have a great experience being there and growing that team out significantly over a couple of year periods.
We started DocSend in 2013.
So it's over three and a half years ago now that we started the company.
And the very first version of it was something that came from an insight I had while I interned at Dropbox while I was in business school in 2010.
And that is that sending attachments is just really not a great way to go.
It just brings up a lot of problems.
So we wanted to come up with a system that works well for businesses to send documents as links and not attachments.
And there are a few properties that we really wanted that were just missing from all the other systems out there.