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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

That includes all of our cloud strategy, cloud operations, backend engineering, IT and security. I started at Amazon before they had Amazon Web Services (AWS) so I was lucky enough to see AWS born out of the guts of all of the great operations work done for the amazon.com retail website. What it means to Run Less Software.

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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. I was the only manager, and I definitely didn’t know what I was doing.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

There is definitely no magic bullet to doing it right from the outset or to fixing your perceived issues in one fell swoop. Everything else is just a strategy to achieve the ultimate DevOps goal of continuous improvement. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. But of course, it wasn’t always quite that big!

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

Sales Hacker

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Today on the show, we’re excited to have Vishal Sunak, the CEO and founder of LinkSquares where he’s responsible for developing strategies aimed at assisting both corporate, legal, and finance teams with the review of their contracts. Show Agenda and Timestamps.

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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? So product strategy decisions, vision documents. People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. How will the structure of orgs change around them?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

For one, there was never enough real estate, given we were in San Francisco and Zynga on Pinterest weren’t the only companies with a real estate strategy of being under one roof. How are you and how have you been advising your clients on this hybrid strategy? We’re already in this like a new gen.”