Company Culture Engineering New CTO 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. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.
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. Rich: Today I’m the Senior Director for Foundations Engineering at Intercom.
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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. Cyber security and compliance, it turns out, is in demand.
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? Sam Taylor: And so, I joined as a sales development rep at Salesforce, best move I ever made.
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene.
SaaStr
MARCH 20, 2019
Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? How do they distinguish between culture and values? Just to name a few.
SaaStr
APRIL 9, 2019
Being an engineer can give you the upper hand as a CEO because you understand the product. And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO.
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