“She's led growth at companies like Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox, and SurveyMonkey.”
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“when I spent seven years at Survey Monkey”
“I think just like using Survey Monkey with uh with emailed surveys works fine”
“Elena has worked at or advised companies like Miro amplitude SurveyMonkey mongodb netlify and a dozen others”
“I've had it firsthand at Survey Monkey where just adding consistent UI across all of the paid triggers”
“she was senior vice president of marketing at SurveyMonkey.”
“she was senior vice president of growth at SurveyMonkey”
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