Earlier this week, I sat down with Steve Garrity, co-founder and CTO of Hearsay Social. Steve is a former hire of mine from Microsoft who transitioned from working at a large corporation to founding his own startup.
Steve shares his thoughts and learning from managing an engineer-driven company that expanded from zero to one hundred in three years. He gives input on important hires in the early startup stages and how he transitioned from running engineering to a new VP of Engineering that he hired.
Hearsay Social is a leading enterprise software for social media management. Hearsay Social helps large companies manage compliance, marketing, and sales on social media platforms like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and Foursquare.
Disclosure: Michael Abbott is a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, previously Twitter’s VP of Engineering, and a founder himself.
Steve is an expert in developing scalable enterprise software solutions and leads the best team in the industry at Hearsay Social. Before founding Hearsay Social, Mr. Garrity worked as a Program Manager and engineer at Microsoft Corporation in Seattle where he developed the Azure.net services platform and worked as a Product Manager at Fortify Software. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a BS and MS in Computer Science. At Stanford, he was a Mayfield Fellow while studying...
Mike Abbott joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2011. He focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice, helping entrepreneurs in the social, mobile and cloud computing sectors rapidly scale teams and ventures. Mike serves as an expert resource on enterprise infrastructure, cloud computing and “big data.” He also helps entrepreneurs win the race for talent in a hyper-competitive recruitment environment. An engineering leader, entrepreneur and investor, Mike led the building of innovative, high-performance applications and...
The world’s largest companies, including Northwestern Mutual, Thrivent Financial, Farmers Insurance Group, and 24 Hour Fitness, use Hearsay Social’s award-winning technology platform to achieve regulatory compliance, build stronger customer relationships, and bolster their brand across all the major social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, and foursquare. Hearsay Social, a SIFMA strategic partner, has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital, NEA, and top executives from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, and YouTube, and is headquartered in Silicon Valley with dedicated local...
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