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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. When you come up the stack a little bit, even inside of AWS, we use a specific set of EC2 instances.

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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. They likely don’t have all the answers. Will Larson: I would love to.

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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? Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes?

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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]. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Vishal Sunak. Prior to founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:10]. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Yousuf. 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. Harry Stebbings.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” So, at HubSpot, we are allergic to micro-management.