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

Intercom, Inc.

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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

SaaStr

In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. Third, my second start-up as a founder — once we had a great management team. Having a great founding team, and then, a great management team, to work together with. I had a pretty excellent, extremely committed co-founder AND management team on Day 0.

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

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10].

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

Prior to founding Balsa, Paul was Senior Director of Product @ Slack and before Slack was a Group Product Manager @ Twitter where he was responsible for the home timeline, including timeline ranking. How does Paul think about driving really effective change management? Is there hiring decisions? Is it product decisions?

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

SaaStr

I’d taken lots of trips and managed a team out there and I decided to basically make the move to the Bay Area in 2014 as a CIO for a company called Qualys. Change management is super hard for companies that are growing really quickly. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. I was super excited by it.

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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

Sales Hacker

How to manage your career to solve for upside. The secrets to effective leadership and management. Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly. What You’ll Learn. The single number that drives the revenue model.

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