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

Intercom, Inc.

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. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. But the work is still there, it still needs to happen.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Investing in things that enable us to move faster and leaner for the long term. Our engineers also write a lot of Ruby code, which knits together a lot of AWS, infrastructure, platform and SaaS technologies that form the core of Intercom’s backend infrastructure. Best in class public companies (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple).

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And then I spent a year at Salesforce working on Marc Benioff’s extended leadership team, and really had a chance to learn how important trust can be, and also really learn from Salesforce, from Mark, how do you really build a global SaaS leader at scale? And that company grew very quickly.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. There’s none of the brands that you’ve seen get to an IPO or continue on to a Fortune 500 company that is not making some significant investments there. ” I’m like, that sounds awful.

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Top 15 VC Podcasts 2023

SmartKarrot

Here are the top 15 venture capital podcast leaders shaping the industry with their visionary and thought leading podcasts covering a range of topics from startups, investments, trends, interviews, and more! He invested in more than 20 early-stage companies. Azeem is also a creator of the Exponential View newsletter and podcast.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

How does John think about the role of leadership in a crisis such as this? Where does John believe many leadership teams go wrong in times such as this? How can leadership teams ensure that a crisis is not self-fulfilling and how can one prevent that mindset? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with John.

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How CIOs & CISOs can prepare to comply with the Indian Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023

Audacix

But you should also be able to use these penalties to make a strong business case for reasonable and necessary investment in cyber security within your organisation. But even if you take baby steps in that direction, you've done your job well and you've got a great story to tell for your next job interview.