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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Remove infrastructure bottlenecks: you do this by ensuring that your infrastructure configuration and management doesn't become a bottleneck to developer productivity. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Get Cyber Chief Free Trial Idea 5.

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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

SaaStr

Recently, I spent several hours with a new but great friend who has been on a vaguely similar journey to me. In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. Third, my second start-up as a founder — once we had a great management team. Second, hire the best management team you can as early as you can.

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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?

CTO Coach 179
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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]. Prior to founding LinkSquares, he held positions in operations and product management at Backupify and InsightSquared. So a lot of my management team, including my co-founder, we all worked together at a company in Boston, Backupify. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

Scale 108
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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. I never managed to convince them.

Scale 127
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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Former Moveworks CIO and Lucidchart Co-Founder/CEO — December 13, 2019

SaaStr

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. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role?