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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

User Pilot

” This platform specialized in location-based queries , allowing travelers to seek advice directly from residents of a particular city. He worked as a Product Lead at Airbnb for 7 years, where he managed a number of teams, supported strategy for the anti-discrimination team, and built new tools for hosts.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. I approached the challenge of proving myself by pretty much consistently working harder and longer through much of my career. […] Now, as a new mum – it has forced me to find more balance.

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SaasOps Stories With Joseph Fuller, Head of IT at Deputy

BetterCloud

On that note, we’ve also been really laser-focused in helping our support team build new and better systems to cope with that particular influx of the business right now. Do you feel like you’ve had to adapt some of your leadership styles to keep things running smoothly? It sounds really lame, but probably travel.

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Shape Up Your Agile

Crafty CTO

My friends at the Chicago CTO Group are very smart people, and everyone I’ve spent time with is practicing some form of agile effectively. When Shape Up follows the road less traveled, there’s a smart reason for it. Not all agile is bad agile. Allowing a project to overrun its deadline is almost unheard of.

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SaaStr Podcast #214: Erica Schultz, CRO @ New Relic on What It Takes To Successfully Scale Into Enterprise

SaaStr

Erica Schultz is Chief Revenue Officer @ New Relic, the company that gives you the real time insights your software driven business needs to innovate faster. Prior to their IPO, New Relic raised over $214m in funding from some of the best in the business including Benchmark, Insight Venture Partners and Blackrock, to name a few.

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10 Tough Lessons We Learned Building a Prenicorn Outside of Silicon Valley from Pendo.io (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Be willing to travel. I think it’s that willingness to travel that continues keeping us a head of the curve, continues teaching us how to continue building a great business. The catch was he had just moved his family four kids to New York city. We had no New York city presence. This was a problem.

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

Sales Hacker

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. He is the chief revenue officer of a company called ADARA, a data cooperative focused on the travel and discretionary spending space, so we’ll dig into that. It has been an incredible journey for him. So it’s a great show. Sales enablement is easy.