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Building Resolution Bot: How to apply machine learning in product development

Intercom, Inc.

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? The cupcake approach to building bots.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. 2018 saw about $44 billion of value added to the public markets, companies like Dropbox, companies like DocuSign, and that has continued now into 2019.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. 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. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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Sales Automation: 210+ Tools to Turbocharge Your Sales Process

Sales Hacker

So our team tried to fill the gap to help you build or enhance your own sales stack. With the increasing use of artificial intelligence, data analytics, and machine learning to drive many solutions, sales automation capabilities have also become more targeted. Related: Best 160+ Sales Tools: The Complete List (2018 Update).

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Things to Avoid in Selecting an Executive-Level Job at a Software Startup

Kellblog

If you’re immediately dispatched to Sand Hill Road in search of capital, you’ll be out pitching the company poorly instead of learning the business and making plans to improve it. Today, machine learning is compounding increasing returns yet again [7]. First-time, non-founder CEOs.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms?