Company Culture CTO Hire Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 
Intercom, Inc.
AUGUST 15, 2018
On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Short on time? Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.
Intercom, Inc.
APRIL 19, 2018
In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software.
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Intercom, Inc.
JANUARY 5, 2022
There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. Cyber attacks have gone up 125% from the previous year, and with companies shifting to partial or fully remote settings, it shows no sign of slowing down. And just continuing to push it higher with the team.
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?
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves?
SaaStr
APRIL 9, 2019
Being an engineer can give you the upper hand as a CEO because you understand the product. Eric Yuan : It really depends, if you think you’ve learned a lot where you were before, at other companies, you really can start as a sole founder. ” Eric Yuan : So, to start a company and a product is everything.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
As for Karl, prior to founding the company he spent 6 years at Google in some fascinating roles including Head of Patents, Head of Business Development in China and running Google’s energy investments. How does one know when we need to hire generalists vs specialists? How does this requirement change as the company scales?
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