![]() I’m imagining you were just knocking away recruiters and offers. You graduated in a fairly robust tech ecosystem. You studied computer science at Stanford, earned a BA and a master’s degree. Jeremy: So Russ, I feel like you’re kind of – I don’t know, make you blush – the prototype here of the modern entrepreneur. So thanks for joining us all the way from out west in Silicon Valley. And from the sounds of my headphones, so far so good. Jeremy: Yeah, so I mentioned to you before we started recording, but for our listeners, Russ is our guinea pig here on the phone podcast. Jeremy: Hey, Russ, thanks so much for joining me here today. It was a lot of fun talking to Russ, really articulate guest. ![]() It’s a lot of life packed into a decade on the job. And then he left Facebook to start DocSend. While he was at Harvard, he launched Pursuit, which was absorbed into Facebook. ![]() He worked at Trulia and Greystripe, where he was the Director of Engineering prior to going to Harvard Business School. Russ has been riding shotgun in the second wave of the tech boom since he graduated from Stanford in 2006 with a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. I think it really has the power to change, and as he’ll tell you, make an honest reader out of your reader as well. So imagine, you send out that important pitch to investors or that important pitch to a new client, you now know how much time they’ve spent on page one, page two, page three, etc., and you know how they’ve interacted with it overall. Well, Russ and his colleagues have tried to solve this problem by creating links which you send, instead of attachments, that will allow you to track user behavior. I’m sure you’ve had that moment where you’ve sent out an attachment and wondered if anyone is actually reading it. Interviewer (Jeremy): Today, we have Russ Heddleston, founder of DocSend. A few weeks ago they interviewed our CEO, Russ Heddleston, on their podcast “Smart People Should Build Things.” Listen in to learn more about Russ’ background, how he built and sold a company to Facebook, what he learned there, and how DocSend came to be.Ĭlick here to listen to the podcast, or read the full transcript posted below. Venture for America is a fellowship program aimed at helping recent college grads jumpstart their careers as entrepreneurs.
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