In this edition of the Early Adopter Podcast, Dan Woods speaks with Zoom's CEO and founder Eric Yuan. In his research, Woods has focused on four characteristics that can define a startup: 
1. Are you searching for a business model? 
2. Are you accepting venture capital financing? 
3. Are you focused on rapid growth? 
4. Do you strongly embrace aspects of startup culture? 

The conversation between Yuan and Woods focuses on startup culture, and how, even as startups grow, it’s important to maintain many aspects of startup culture so that nature of innovation keeps the company fresh and innovative.

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How Zoom has prioritized the happiness of its employees

How to avoid pitfalls in engineering code

The common mistakes Yuan sees startups making

Early Adopter Podcast with Palisade's Craig Guarente

Designing Enterprise Platforms: Hosted by Dan Woods, analyst at Early Adopter Research and contributor to leading tech publications, this podcast focuses how to create product-based platforms that can have a transformational impact. The goal is to understand how to combine and integrate products rather than build from scratch. All aspects of platform building are covered from technology, to change management, to integration strategies.