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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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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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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

When you treat your cloud provider as a fractional colo. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

But if you target SMBs or consumers, PLG is a fantastic way, and you have a very large user base to reach out to as well. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. Should they focus on the setup, the onboarding flow, the free user experience?

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Observable Framework Delivers Blazing-fast Data Dashboards

Crafty CTO

As I was mulling this, I came across a pair of new Vision examples in the OpenAI Cookbook. That led me down one final rabbit hole, but a very useful one, as I soon realized that Framework was a perfect fit for one of my fractional CTO client’s “data science reporting and dashboard” needs.

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? Is there hiring decisions? If you’re hiring right now, I think it’s extra important to have the hiring criteria all the way down to specific things you’re looking for, for a candidate or red flags documented, so that everyone is super tightly aligned.

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