I'm delighted to have on our show Doug Gould, who is very experienced in partnerships. He is currently leading ecosystem partnership in LaunchDarkly and before that he was in AWS leading partnership with startups. Previously he was in Microsoft and before Microsoft he was building community in a VC fund. Doug has a lot of great experience in partnerships and I'm really fascinated by what he learned managing partnership in all those companies. Specifically, a very interesting

We sat down with Dropbox's Business Development Executive, Abhishek Lahoti, to discuss why Partnerships are crucial to the tech industry and how to best manage them. Abhishek, thank you so much for finding time. You have been working in the tech-industry for a while, Why do you think companies use partnerships today? Why do you think it is important, if it is important for you? I think in the industry that we're in right now and the time we live in, there's no such thing as a