founder stories
by sari and · updated 6mo ago
founder stories
Pandora was founded in 2000 with about $2m in funding. However in 2001 the company ran out of money. Unwilling to giving up, Westergren had to figure out how to keep his 50-person team from quitting. They had yet to launch their product and were years away from making money.
At Hustle Con 2015, Westergren recited the speech he regularly gave that co
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