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#Xerocon San Diego: The Jamies of Hubdoc (acquired by Xero)


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Aug 26 2019 20 mins  
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  • 00:57 – Meet one of the Two Jamies - Jamie McDonald, Executive GM, Product, Accounting and Global Services at Xero
  • 01:44 – Jamie M talks career, and his new promotion
  • 02:45 – What’s ahead for Hubdoc? Jamie M discusses the acquisition, some of Hubdoc’s newest time-saving features, and plans for building a more powerful platform
  • 05:10 – Jamie M talks about Hubdoc’s global positioning and how working across multiple time zones is maybe his least favorite part of his job
  • 05:57 – Touching on the Xero-Stripe integration – one more way to save time and eliminate headaches
  • 07:31 – Keys to being successfully acquired – show up everywhere, listen, really listen, do lots of stuff that adds value, repeat
  • 10:14 – The other Jamie, Hubdoc Co-Founder and Co-CEO, arrives!
  • 11:00 – Has fetching docs (Hubdoc’s forte) become a new pain point for accountants and bookkeepers?
  • 13:15 – Do we really want to live in a world without bank feeds? Why said feeds and fetching soar above the manual-entry alternative
  • 16:15 – Jamie M talks about the potential for new business with the plethora of US banks and how Hubdoc is focusing on building an innovative, powerful, and reliable API that targets the accounting, bookkeeping community
  • 17:58 – Jamie S pontificates on how the new Wow moment – machine learning – is helping offset some of Hubdoc’s challenges with fetching
  • 19:14 – Here’s to another 10 years (and more) of success!

Connect with Jamie McDonald

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiemcdonald/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jamiemcdonald

Connect with Jamie Shulman

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamieshulman/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JamieShulman

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