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

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Solving the puzzle.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same. Managers and leaders are different.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

of leadership roles. This could be explained by the fact that it was women, more often than men, who had to step down and work part-time to take care of stay-at-home children during the pandemic. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Your big money is going to go into hiring your employees. Even BlackLine.

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SaaStr Podcast #357 with BlackLine CEO & Founder Therese Tucker: “Busting the Myths About Startup Success”

SaaStr

This episode is an excerpt from Therese’s session at SaaStr Annual 2018. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. He’s not necessarily interested in putting in the work that’s necessary or getting the coaching or the feedback that he needs. You can see the full video here , and read the podcast transcript below.

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Learning to Love the Art of Sales (As a Technical Founder) with Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Europa Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

At our inaugural SaaStr Europa last June, podcast host-with-the-most Harry Stebbings sat down with MuleSoft Founder and CTO Ross Mason to discuss the organization’s sales strategy, building a strong company culture, how to think about international expansion, and much more. Again, it was because we weren’t just selling software.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

And so I quickly raised my hand and said this is an awesome opportunity for me to get sales leadership experience, but also get the expat experience, which at that time I looked at as something incredibly valuable for me. And then from 2018 to 2019, another 45% growth and broke the $100 million top line sales figure.