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Stax Payments Appoints Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer

Stax

As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. Early in his career, he worked at Microsoft, advancing in technical and leadership roles over 17 years. To learn more about Stax, visit staxpayments.com. and Canada.

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

Buffer Resources

Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. Product can do a huge amount there.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

Tom Tunguz

Great to see a lot of repeat attendees and some new ones. A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. I’m Travis Bryant.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. What were his core learnings from that? *

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. We were end of 2014.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. I was super excited by it.