Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

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?

Technical Review 274

Technical Review Leadership VP of Engineering CTO Coach 274

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time? Short on time?

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

VP of Engineering 118

VP of Engineering Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 118

SaaStr

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Sam made his way into the world of SaaS with Dropbox and how that led to his leading the sales and success team today @ Loom. What was Sam’s biggest lesson from scaling the sales team at Dropbox? When is the right time to hire the first sales rep? Should you hire 2 at a time?

Scale 182

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Sales 182

OpenView Labs

JULY 16, 2020

Back in March and April, when we were all adapting to COVID-19, I used the Mood Meter at the beginning of a bunch of my leadership team meetings because I found it was a really useful tool to open up the discussion. What’s the last book you read? I have a pile of quarter-read books by my bed. It sort of worked.

CTO Hire 55

CTO Hire New CTO CTO Underperforming Technical Team 55

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. COO, what does it mean?

CTO Coach 128

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 128

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2019

Learn how Pendo built a product, team, and culture in its Raleigh hometown that could scale coast-to-coast and continent-to-continent. I can curve out half an hour time.”. I immediately left the office, went home, packed a bag, went the airport, booked flights, showed up there at mid night, met with the individual.

CTO Hire 161

CTO Hire Travel Underperforming Technical Team CTO Coach 161