Secret sauce of Pipedrive. The interview

Ucha Vekua
Startup Adventures International
7 min readJan 13, 2020

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Estonia is a wonderful place for Startups. There are a lot of great initiatives starting up and becoming a successful tech company in the end. Pipedrive is one of the most successful and famous Startups in Estonia.

Event for team in the office

Recently, I visited their elegant office in Tallinn with my friend Hardik Tank and had a chat with their Talent Acquisition team lead — Mirjam Laurisaar. The Interview was very interesting and very inspiring for me as a person who wants be part of a startup world. You could absolutely feel the startup culture vibes in the office. Every floor of the building was designed in a different theme.

Selfie from the main hall of Pipedrive office

Pipedrive was founded in 2010 and it is the first CRM platform developed from the salesperson’s point of view. Engineers in the company have developed a platform that helps salespeople and teams focus on learning and repeating their most effective process to close deals.

It all started by 5 Estonian founders, who had great mix of backgrounds of Sales, Software Engineering, Startups and Entrepreneurship. They realised that there was a huge gap in the market — they hadn’t found a proper sales management tool that would meet the needs of people doing actual…

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Ucha Vekua
Startup Adventures International

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