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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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2022 in review: Highlights from this year’s best conversations

Intercom, Inc.

Throughout the year, we’ve talked with and learned from industry leaders, experts, and innovators about a multitude of topics: from facing the tech slowdown to the dawn of machine learning, from the trends transforming customer support to using human insight to create memorable experiences. Yamini Rangan , CEO at Hubspot. In January.

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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. And what a year it has been!

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SaaStr Podcast #411 with Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua

SaaStr

As for Tamar, previously, Tamar was a Vice President at Google, holding product and engineering leadership roles on Google’s most important products, including Search, Identity, and Privacy. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Advertising Technologies at Amazon’s A9. How should it be structured?

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CX expert Bill Price on creating frictionless customer experiences

Intercom, Inc.

He’s worked to improve the call center experience in the 1990s, becoming Amazon’s first Worldwide Vice-President of Customer Service, and, in the early 2000s, started a CX consulting firm, Driva Solutions, which helps businesses create great experiences to this day. Or, even better, eliminating them altogether.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. That includes: A global focus. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Professional moderation.

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Little Otter’s Rebecca Egger on making mental health care accessible to all

Intercom, Inc.

In this episode, we sat down with Rebecca to talk about her mission to make mental health care scalable and accessible for all, and how the pandemic and technology are radically changing the way we think about mental health care. The company means a great deal to both of them. Here are some of our favorite takeaways from the conversation: 1.

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