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

Intercom, Inc.

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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? How do we fix it?”

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

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. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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The ZeroOps journey: Mind The Gap

CloudGeometry

Rather, what ZeroOps practices bring to faster, more reliable cloud software development is the emphasis on a better developer experience for writing and improving code unique to the product and the business it supports. It does not mean that every software engineer should shoulder the burden of mastering everything everywhere all at once.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. And that’s where I think a lot of founding people struggle, is you have to go from being a manager and being able to run one team to building a global, scalable, multi tiered leadership org.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

Bringing Sales & Leadership with Heart and Ladies Happy Hour to the sales community. I went through a VP of Sales Program with SaaSy Sales Leadership — the moment I realized I didn’t want to be a VP of Sales. She is a Speaker and Hostess for LinkedIn Live. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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How to Acquire a $400B World-Class Company by WePay (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I mean I guess I would say one critical thing that we did early on was we got them to agree that we as a leadership team were the ones who are owning the whole sort of announce and offer process to that new company for our employees. And it’s also a company that employees 50,000 software engineers. Tina Hsiao : Yeah.

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‘Risks Aren’t Risky’: Yvonne Wassenaar’s Unconventional Path to CEO

OpenView Labs

So says Yvonne Wassenaar , a veritable rock star whose own path has traversed many roles: strategy consultant, software engineer, operating executive, CIO, and CCO. She recommends developing a higher level of social consciousness about the issue around leadership tables. “We

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