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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Listen to the rest of the interview here. What’s the sequence?

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The Top 20 Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

TechEmpower SaaS

And in the software world, an A player is worth 10+ C players! When we interview potential developers, we’re always amazed at how many can’t answer basic programming questions. New features always require significant rewrites, and consequently a lot of time. cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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ICYMI: Meet HubSpot’s Chief Product Officer, Christopher O’Donnell

OpenView Labs

I tell them that I do what I do with music, but with software engineers. Is there a new skill you’ve been working on during quarantine? He drove a forklift in New Jersey long enough for him to have enough money to build his own studio. Read more interviews with the most interesting humans in SaaS. Sidewalk mosaics.

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

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. They often superimpose it on the new company they’ve joined.

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Who is Your “Buying Committee” and Why You Should Care

Sales Hacker

Examples: Software Engineer, Product Manager, or Account Executive.Sales Enablement Manager. Examples: CTO, COO, CFO. Interview salespeople: Great salespeople obsess about their deals, game planning to win at each step, and agonizing about the factors that could kill a deal.

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

Intercom, Inc.

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

Major challenges facing a new CEO [19:40]. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Vishal Sunak. Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality. Show Agenda and Timestamps. Show Introduction [00:10]. Sam’s Corner [28:45].

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