PETER GASSNER: What if you worked for a mission-driven company that could become the most important job you had yet? We’re building products that serve life science industries and are helping make a massive difference in people’s lives. We’re probably the biggest software company you’ve never heard of. Many times those companies with those critical medicines, they are our customers and we’re helping them make those medicines. So that really feels good.
Veeva was the first public company to convert from a normal company to a public benefit corporation and the idea is really simple. We now have a legal duty to our customers and our employees, society in general, and our shareholders. We started in 2007 and now we’re getting to be quite a large company, over 4,000 people, well over $1 billion in sales.
But we’d like to retain our speed and I think we do that really well by breaking things down into small groups so people can move with autonomy.
ANDY HAN: We’ve been able to build independent application teams. Those application teams have been able to build applications really quickly at the speed that their markets really dictate.
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