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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

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? Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same.

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Meet BetterCloud’s New VP of Quality, Daniel Waithe

BetterCloud

Secondarily, I had a chance to chat with [CTO Jamie Tischart ] even before he joined the company. It didn’t take me long to say, “Oh yeah, this is a leader I definitely want to work with and learn from.” ” That was the catalyst for me to think about leadership and management. That was very exciting to me.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Anybody who’s familiar with machine learning and artificial intelligence will tell you that there hasn’t actually been a dramatic increase or improvement in the quality of the algorithms over the last 20 years. Tim: I was hired in 2010, when Facebook was what I like to call a “teenage company”. Calendars are broken.