Epilogue

Having once spent every waking (and nonwaking) moment together, Alex, Morten, and I don't see each other that often anymore. While Alex and Morten still have critical roles at the company and are running their own teams, doing people management or all the other management stuff has never really been their thing. So much of the early work rested on their shoulders, building a beautiful new-generation customer service product, and my biggest contribution back then was primarily having opinions about everything. I'm grateful they believed in me enough to allow me to grow into a role where I could truly make a difference.

Alex, who now has a beautiful (Danish) wife with exquisite taste (of course) and two kids, can no longer work a hundred ...

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