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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. Short on time? Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. It didn’t take me long to say, “Oh yeah, this is a leader I definitely want to work with and learn from.” ” That was the catalyst for me to think about leadership and management. That was very exciting to me.

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Everything Founders Should Know About AI, Pricing, and Funding with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin 

SaaStr

In it, we cover the SaaS community’s most pressing questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), pricing, efficiency, and funding. Is the CTO involved in these decisions? App contraction is still happening, and AI is absorbing all of the energy in the industry. Is SaaS dead right now?

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

In any of the roles I have had – going back to my first job at Sybase in the 1990s – this area of focus has been the difference between technologies that break out and are very successful and technologies that are considered to be ahead of their time or just not the right product-market fit. Calendars are broken.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

Chris Orlob is the senior director of product marketing at Gong.io, an AI (Artificial Intelligence) platform to provide sales analytics. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. He posts regularly on social media on SaaS vision, leadership, and product. Chris Orlob. Dharmesh Shah.

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

Sales Hacker

REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound, and even followup sales campaigns faster using over one billion rows of performance data across 75 industries. I think the next thing that was really critical was, you cannot discount the need to actually hire locally as well.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

You could either spend, you know, you raise some venture funding, you could either spend some of that funding on hiring out a whole team and developing all those competencies, or you can spend that on making your model even better. David: And so you’ve done it differently this time around? There’s just a lot of work.

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