How Tradeshift Tweeted And Got 50 Coders To Build Its First Version For Equity – with Christian Lanng

Christian Lanng, Tradeshift, B2B, European Founder, International Founders, Scaling, Social Media

How do you start a company with a tweet and grow it to 60,000 business users within 1 year?

Christian Lanng is the co-founder of Tradeshift, a free invoicing service that packs in a social network for businesses and offers apps.

The tens of thousands of organizations that use Tradeshift include the Danish government and UK National Health Services. Here’s the story of how it got there.

Christian Lanng

Tradeshift

Christian Lanng is the co-founder of Tradeshift, a free invoicing service that packs in a social network for businesses and offers apps.

 

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