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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.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

What’s their new CAC Payback Time? I personally find it surprising that a SaaS company’s forecast may often include such an expense breakdown – as it should – but the company’s actuals are a mere black box. What might have been less clear for the CEO is whether this spend has been sustainable. New Gross Margins?

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

This is your chance to minimise your tech footprint by refactoring applications to work on common environments and reducing the number of moving parts. This is a great time to share these learnings across team and functional boundaries. Help team members find mentors they can trust. It's available now.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Rob May being the founder and CEO of the company, and a great mentor for me. I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Is there hiring decisions? How important do you think time to value is? .” How will the support they receive change? How will their training change? How will their comp change? Harry Stebbings.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. And then when they do actually sign up, it's up to me or the product team to make sure that within that time period, they're activated and they are finding usage, right?

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

SaaStr

290: Yousuf Khan is a serial CIO, start-up and VC advisor. During his time at the company, they raised over $108m from Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Kleiner, Sapphire, and Bain Capital. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.