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Monday.com: How to build a global software giant with Dougal Shaw

Monday.com is a global software giant worth more than $14bn (£11bn) that has emerged from outside Silicon Valley. It lets companies build their own work and project management tools. This approach is often referred to as low code or no code. It gives teams the flexibility to build their own apps and control workflows. Monday.com was founded in Israel in 2012 and went public in the US on Nasdaq in 2021. It now has more than a quarter of a million customers in over 200 countries and the UK is its second-largest market globally. Co-founder and co-CEO Eran Zinman tells Dougal Shaw how the company has scaled so rapidly.

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