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In the Vault: Turning Developers Into Clients With Marco Argenti From Goldman Sachs

Andreessen Horowitz

But then mobile was the next obvious thing. I actually moved to Europe where a friend of mine was doing an IPO of a company and he acquired the mobile company almost as an afterthought. And then we started to really go down the path of mobilizing the internet, creating infrastructure for others to create mobile websites.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

Our engineers build and evolve our customer-facing web and mobile applications’ UI and workflow engine and our end-user facing messenger. 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.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Rise of mobile. Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. . Big tech takes over. .

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Sales Engagement Book Available for Pre-Order!

Sales Hacker

It’s for all roles in the revenue organization from Demand Gen, to Sales Development, Ops/Enablement, Management, Leadership, Account Executives, and even Customer Success. Prior to Outreach, Manny was the third employee on Amazon’s AWS team, and led the Microsoft mobile division from launch to $50M in annual revenue.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Growth Engineer Job Description Cheatsheet

Sylvia Ng

Computer science (or related) degree, coding bootcamp completion, or extensive experience building web/mobile apps. 3+ years of mobile-specific experience (including both iOS and Android). Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Background in statistics.

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

SaaStr

If you haven’t signed up on the mobile app or whatever, it’s cool. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. ” So we want to own it and be able to work with sales and sort of a servant leadership perspective, put them in a position to prospect.