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From Zero to IPO: How Growth Needs to Evolve at Every Startup Stage

Brian Rothenberg’s career has spanned every stage of startup growth, from scrappy zero to triumphant IPO. We’ll start with a snapshot of “zero”: It’s 2009, and Rothenberg and his SkillSlate co-founder Bartek Ringwelski are piled on the seat of a rickety Vespa knockoff, zooming precariously through the streets of Manhattan to their next pitch meeting. Fast forward nine years (plus one Skillslate a