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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. Karen Peacock: In college, I studied math and computer science and engineering. Will Larson: One of the core problems with staff engineers is, what is a staff engineer? But what if the manager role is not for you?

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And before box she ran product and engineering teams building large scale financial platforms for Accenture clients. But Twitter is pretty much free and people are really honest with their opinions, especially their constructive criticism. We’ll do a quick round of intro, so Bela’s Senior Director of Product at Box.

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Bridging Buyer-Seller Gaps like It’s 2020

SaaStr

We harp on dynamic deals so much because elite sellers are using this new definition to build well-oiled revenue engines. Leverage document templates to speed-up creation and increase brand compliance. We hypothesize that because buyers have more power than ever with search engines, review sites, influencers, and video content ?they

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Bob Moore: And I was t nerdy engineer in college, so getting the opportunity to have to pitch, it’s really a sales job at the end of the day. Bob Moore: Yeah, I would definitely say in college, I studied engineering and Texas hold’em poker became really, really super popular.

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Appcues vs WalkMe: Which is Better for No-Code Growth?

User Pilot

The platform is built keeping the compliance, scalability, and security needs of enterprises in mind. It essentially allows people like product managers, product marketing managers or marketers (who may not necessarily have a background in engineering) to create e.g. in-app onboarding experiences, optimize signup and onboarding flows etc.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams SaaS multi-tenancy means achieving a reliable level of efficiency and security, delivering an application that is feature-rich and cost-effective. Compute isolation Patterns Several approaches can help create a Silo-based isolated compute construct in a Cloud platform.