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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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Ensuring Intercom’s business continuity during uncertain times

Intercom, Inc.

Our leadership team is fully engaged in the active management of our response during this challenging period. We are conducting interviews and onboarding new employees remotely. All of Intercom’s production infrastructure is provided as a service to Intercom by Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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PODCAST 47: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we interview Dan Fougere , CRO of Datadog. Dan talks about the key qualities of great sales leadership and how to be an effective executive in addition to being a great sales leader. Building a Repeatable Leadership System [19:04]. Building a Repeatable Leadership System.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

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. We quickly discounted this as it didn’t fit with our three pillars of Run Less Software and decided to consolidate on MySQL, specifically on AWS MySQL.

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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. They can make donations for those charities.

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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! Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

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

SaaStr

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. You just don’t know when.