article thumbnail

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. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. How do we fix it?”

article thumbnail

11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

After interacting with many new DevOps teams, my sense is that many of them are hamstrung by the imagination and risk appetites of their senior leaders, in a classic case of you don't know what you don't know. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. In my first start-up as a founder, I had a great CTO and VPE and a pretty darn good VP Ops from the very beginning. 20×7, near as I can tell.

article thumbnail

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. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 124
article thumbnail

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]. It really lended itself to being this new category, this post signature type of contract product. And talking about folks, about contract management software, we’re like, it’s not a new category. Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Show Agenda and Timestamps.

Scale 107
article thumbnail

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

SaaStr

And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Is that a new innovation in org structures and the remit of the role? Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. Harry Stebbings: Totally.

article thumbnail

SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

Why does Paul believe that the builders are the new pro athletes? People are struggling ,as well as organizations, obviously, but they’re also super willing and keen to try new things to improve how they work. In a COVID world, where employee appetite is actually pretty high to try new tools. How will their comp change?

CTO Coach 173