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066 How A Blog Post Led To Zapposs CEO Investing In This Startup - With Walter Chen
Walter Chen is the co-founder and CEO of IDoneThis, an email-based productivity tool that allows people to track their productivity with a daily email reminder. You reply to an evening email reminder with what you did that day. The next day, you get a digest with what everyone on the team got done. The company was founded in 2011 and its investors include folks such as the CEOs of Zappos, Shopify & Wistia. Walter is a software engineer and former big law firm lawyer.Links, Resources & People Mentioned
iDoneThis - @idonethis
Zappos
Wistia
"How To Prevent A 'Bossless Culture' From Slipping Into Chaos" by Walter Chen
Tony Hsieh - @tonyhsieh
Chris Savage - @csavage
Walter Chen -@smalter
Omer Khan -@omerkhan
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