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How Generative AI Will Turn Traditional SaaS Models On Their Head with AWS VP of Generative Builders Adam Seligman

SaaStr

Within the next 12 months, Adam Seligman, VP of Generative Builders at AWS, believes there will be an inversion of SaaS. The good news is you have a big backlog, and the bad news is you have a big backlog. All these developers will have agents to help them write faster and faster. What does that mean? What’s the data model?

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. At Intercom, we’ve found success running Lambda as glue code between AWS services.

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. They’re a very important part of the team. Is that about the…?

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How to Win Big by Serving High-Growth Startups with Zendesk’s Head of Startups

SaaStr

You don’t want conflict with the sales team. How do you leverage that offer to develop relationships with partners? This is where they started, but startups weren’t adopting the product as much with a discount, and there was a lot of conflict with the sales team. During SaaStr Annual, Zendesk Sr.

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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. The concept was the foundation for his popular talk and ultimately his classic, long-form blog post. We will use only a specific set of AWS data stores.

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Intercom presents Engineer Chats

Intercom, Inc.

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?