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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later. We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. And what a year it has been! More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. And truth be told, our journey wasn’t the only one we learned from.

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Forget Support — Optimize for Full Funnel Customer Success

FastSpring

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the support team are responsible for first response times, for things like NPS, whereas what we’re responsible for is, ultimately, outcomes.”

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Before seeing good success in the company.

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Is Your Sales Organization Ready for a Recession?

OPEXEngine

A Bain survey of sales operations executives, in partnership with Research Now SSI, found that only 43% of sales organizations develop plans for a recession well in advance of it. Data and analytics alone won’t get you there, but by following basic best practices, research shows you have a high chance of succeeding.

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The Stages Of A SaaS Company: When To Scale For Success

Chargify

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ The first thing you may think, as we did, is “Does it matter?

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

The New Solution Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? This list is not endorsed or sponsored in any way. Books that made the cut: Are on my own bookshelf. The Transparency Sale.

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