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Tishan Mills on the TechTO stage

Tishan Mills

SVP, Platform, StackAdapt

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Tishan Mills is SVP platform at StackAdapt, leading full-stack engineering. He co-founded QuickTapSurvey in Toronto and ran its engineering, product and design as it grew bootstrapped and profitable to 3,000 customers and about 40 people before Formstack acquired it in 2018. He spoke at TechTO in September 2017.

On the TechTO stage ×1

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Tishan Mills of QuickTapSurvey presents How to avoid the HiPPO

TechTO · September 2017
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First seen on the TechTO stage in 2017. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Tishan ↗

In their words

good decision making is a key success factor for any startup and so you need to make sure that your decisions are data-driven that their customer focused and based on experimentation

TechTO, Sep 2017 · watch at 05:27 ↗

you really need to make sure that you're giving yourself the right amount of runway to make your business successful

TechTO, Sep 2017 · watch at 08:07 ↗

if you're building something amazing it it does take that time

TechTO, Sep 2017 · watch at 08:19 ↗
A few quotes can’t cover everything Tishan said on the TechTO stage. 1,600+ talks are searchable.Ask about Tishan ↗

Around the web ×1

Interview
From Roommates to Co-Founders: The Story of Building & Selling a Successful Toronto-Based Tech CompanySampford Advisors
2018

Quick answers

What is Tishan Mills known for?

Co-founding QuickTapSurvey, a bootstrapped Toronto B2B SaaS company acquired by Formstack in 2018, and later leading engineering at Splunk's Toronto site and at StackAdapt.

What did he talk about at TechTO?

How to avoid the HiPPO — the highest-paid person's opinion — when making product decisions, with three pieces of advice for product teams. TechTO, September 2017.

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