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

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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Sales Engagement Book Available for Pre-Order!

Sales Hacker

Big news today: my colleagues at Outreach and I wrote a book (yes, a physical book), and it’s now available for pre-order! Why a Book on Sales Engagement? The book will be released on March 12, 2019. So if you want in, you can pre-order the book now at: Amazon. Books-A-Million. Reserve your copy now.

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Why Can’t SaaS Companies Just Mint Cash?

SaaStr

Some are still burning far more than their new bookings, which is very, very risky these days. Does it cost so, so much to host a few million lines of code on AWS? Next year they are all going from a few million to >$300m in ARR, but the burn rates are all, all, all over the place. Some are barely burning any cash.

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PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere

Sales Hacker

Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader. Building a Repeatable Leadership System [19:04]. Dan’s got over 20 years of sales experience, and specifically has insights on sales and leadership. We’re on iTunes. And on Stitcher.

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Data Democratization: Definition, Benefits, Implementation & Best Practices

User Pilot

To see how Userpilot can help you implement data democratization in your company, book the demo! What’s more, data visualization tools allow them to communicate ideas clearly with stakeholders that may not be involved in product development directly, like senior leadership. What is data democratization?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Finally, before YesWare, she was VP of Sales @ Engine Yard, where she tripled monthly recurring revenue, over the course of her 3+ year tenure, in 3 key leadership roles. I read a book, God, it was years ago, about Marriott. And I remember AWS was growing really quickly. Loving our podcast content?

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Starting Up In A Downturn with Cloudflare COO and Co-Founder Michelle Zatelyn (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. And at the time there was a big debate of, “Will big companies ever really use AWS?” And at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?” As a team together.