Episode Outline
[01:26] About Formstack
[02:17] The first M&A
[04:33] Four more times
[07:14] Venture funding
[11:00] Chris’s lessons learned
[12:31] Chris’s influential people
[01:10] How Backblaze accomplishes 90% inbound
[06:00] The unconventional ways Ahin drove growth at Backblaze
[09:23] The challenges of content marketing
[12:27] Campaigns that did not pan out and what Ahin learned from them
[16:23] The importance of having a unique view of value to share
[19:20] How learning the mechanics of collaborative databases benefited Ahin’s career
[20:35] Why Ahin thinks professional wrestling is America’s most important art form and purest form of storytelling we have