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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. 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?

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45 – Technical leadership (from a past CTO, CEO, Director of Engineering, and Coder), with Cynthia Del’Aria

Natalia Luneva

Today I interview Cynthia Del’Aria and we talk about leadership in the SaaS world. Cynthia helps business owners turn their idea for an app, custom software, subscription product, or website into higher profit with higher margins. The importance of leadership for SaaS companies.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. So it’s a great show.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. We saw inside the company this tension between our classroom business and this new B2C digital business, and we knew we had to make a decision.

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Bringing AI to the Masses

Andreessen Horowitz

And so, the thing that was really new about LLMs was the ability to, at extremely low cost, generate an answer instantly to any question. Adam: And so, based on all that, we landed on building Poe as a new chat-oriented AI product. We thought about, [as Quora] , what is the role that we’re going to play in this new world with AI?

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What's the ROI of your mom?

ProfitWell

Your top subscription news. On a global scale, on average, product marketers with strong leadership support earn almost $13k more a year than those without. And that’s a wrap for your December 6 subscription news. On today’s episode, we’re calculating the ROI of your CSM. And Sprinklr acquires Nanigans.

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Reasons That Make Customer Success a Must to be Represented at C-Suite Level

SmartKarrot

The hot topic that is running around in the SaaS industry is the need for customer success to have a seat and a voice at the leadership table. This makes a case for customer success to have a seat at the leadership table. C-Suite executives need to have strong leadership and communication skills.