Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2018

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. Infrastructure-as-a-service provided by Amazon, Google and Microsoft among others empowers applications to scale as users demand. Perhaps the advances in infrastructure should reduce software cost.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 5, 2019

But I had forgotten about it until I listened to the author on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. Then the business transitions to scaling. Earlier this year, I read Algorithms to Live By, a book that explains how to use insights from computer science in daily life. One of the rules is the 37% rule.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

“Getting on the localization ladder is the first step in the process, and is the key to unlocking the growth opportunities modern companies need to scale – if not to simply survive” What is localization? And with the right tools, it’s accessible to companies of all sizes, opening a door to a world of opportunity for growth.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2023

Vention is the premier global leader in software engineering, synonymous with technology designed for scale and the common denominator behind the world’s most successful tech-empowered enterprises, industry innovators, and startups. appeared first on SaaStr.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

His new venture focuses on creating a central knowledge network for scaling businesses so that employees aren’t wasting hours by chasing down important resources and company history scattered across a host of apps like Google Docs, SharePoint sites, Evernote and more. Collaboration pains increase as you scale. Short on time?

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Most sophisticated data teams run like software engineering teams with product requirement documents, ticketing systems, & sprints. Data Products : The combination of large language models and data teams becoming software teams has led to data products. The same thing is happening in data.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Software engineering best practices have begun to infuse data: data observability, specialization of different ETL layers, data exploration, and data security all thrived in 2021 and will continue as users stuff more data into databases and data lakehouses. Data companies continue to achieve astronomical growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 19, 2018

It struck me that most of these interviews were so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. Most interviews are so far removed from the daily routines of a software engineer. Testing engineers for curiosity, skills and potential ensures we hire people who can scale with the company as it grows.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The SMB markets can test out features that aren’t built to scale yet, and as they succeed, Greenhouse invests in them and rolls them out to Enterprise customers. Now, over the next decade, they need to think about other things their customers do in hiring that aren’t done well and could be scaled. They did it.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2019

Clear guiding principles are the best way to scale a team while keeping them aligned. One team heavily believes in Big Design Up Front , another follows Lean start-up , a third tries to instil PRINCE-2 , and before you know it your process is a patchwork quilt of all sorts of conflicting ways to build software.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Keys to success when scaling a company [10:56]. Vishal Sunak: We are on the scale to eight digits right now, not that far away. So yeah, we’re five years old and scaling to eight digits and beyond now. Not me personally, but a bunch of smart PhDs and software engineers, they’re the ones that can make it a reality.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The same could be true for a software engineer at her home office at 9:00 pm at night. . Employee referrals are key to scaling hiring across a company. It’s simply not true anymore. In fact, I’ve seen this for myself. On occasion, I personally get my best work done from my kitchen table at 5:00 am in the morning. 81% of U.S.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Those companies need to spend a lot of time considering problems that will occur when a system has millions of users, and have to think carefully about ML tech debt given their scale. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling.

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FastSpring

MAY 6, 2022

And his main responsibility during the following five years was to scale WeWork’s billing system as the company grew from eight locations to 400. Data science has a key difference from software engineering. In software engineering, when you work on an existing system, you can build on what past coders have done before you.

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Incredo

JULY 8, 2019

We hope our article will help you cut the clutter and scale your SaaS business to uncharted limits. SaaS (Software-as-a-service) is one of the main service models of cloud computing, alongside IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (Platform-as-a-service). Let’s dive in! #1 1 You Should Own a SaaS Company . One last point.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. Which is basically scaled marketing and things like that. And the beauty about SaaS businesses is they are possibly the businesses that scale the best internationally. So one of the ways to scale and grow is to go international.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

After a decade of expanding complexity in the modern data stack, companies are dramatically simplifying their architectures - and getting better results Second, we’re seeing a renaissance of scale-up computing. Content: I use my MacBook Pro to run 70 billion parameter models, which are equivalent to GPT 3.5 I did this in 15 minutes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We paid a $2500 bonus for any referral, and then we paid a $10,000 referral bonus for anybody that referred a software engineer. 10,000 bonus for referring a software engineer. But the hardest challenge was scaling that culture, going from Adam and myself, two co-founders, to 100+ employees. And it worked great.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

There wasn’t a ton of game film on key issues including growth, new market performance, nor the ability to sign and scale grocer partnerships. Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. Beyond the metrics, co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta had great founder/product fit.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 13, 2023

What’s the scale of the opportunity that AI presents? Asked how generative AI tools might affect the jobs of software engineers and other roles, Ariel explained that it’s like anything else in tech: “You always need to adjust, definitely, if you are in tech.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

According to Indeed data, an account executive in San Francisco earns $87k per year on average, while a software engineer earns $121k. Those figures imply most software businesses have roughly 3-4:1 sales/marketing to engineering ratio at scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Despite the work still being very much a balancing act between what’s possible and what’s feasible, things, it appears, are just starting to scale. And they are just scaling that up. People have invested a lot in making them scale, and you can run them much bigger. So, adding more compute, is that more CPU power?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Or maybe that’s just my software engineer’s bias. The idea that the latest is also correct holds in technical genres like software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the likes. If you want to learn how to scale your SaaS company, start here. Building products that scale is hard.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 13, 2014

At conferences, events and coffee meetings, startup founders and employees freely share many of the insights into product design, marketing, customer success, and engineering best practices. One could argue the entire open-source movement is a giant continuing education program for software engineers.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2020

We’re basically going to talk about the seven “people” things that nobody tells you when you scale a B2B company. One of the best ways to scale a company is to have figured out a way to do it with as few people as possible. This is probably a business that is going to be very, very difficult to scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. We’re that way too.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. Technology helped us put a man on the moon, but the interface between the human and technology can have huge impact on whether or not we can take advantage of that, particularly at scale.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Y’know, the big-scale campaigns that go viral, make you cry with their upbeat messages of hope and wonder, and are forwarded to you by your Aunt Annette 10 years after the fact? For example, female software engineers have increased by only 2% in the last * 21 years *. And it’s not for lack of trying. Actually, no.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

To achieve our mission of making internet business personal and scaling to support larger and larger customers, we have been continually, thoughtfully, and carefully investing in our people, systems, and processes to maintain Intercom’s high standards of availability. “The The foundation of our operational health is availability.

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Neil Patel

JULY 2, 2021

Scaling becomes a problem, though. You Googled “software engineer jobs” last week. So now Google knows what type of “engineer salaries” to show you, even though you never explicitly asked for “software engineer salaries.”. Google processes over 3.5 You read TechCrunch almost every single day.

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CloudGeometry

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The quality of collaboration in software development is measured by a direct line of sight into the customer experience. DevOps is a given in today’s software engineering world. Read more about this in my prior post. More about how we got here in my previous post. comparing you to others in your space.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Will it scale with you? Is it the interface? Conversion optimization options? Integrations? The API documentation?

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

All this to say—it’s time to figure out how to access, pay for, and deliver curative therapies (amongst other high-cost, complex, specialty drugs), at scale. We’ve even seen hospitals hiring software engineers to custom-build technology to manage these end-to-end processes.

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Trint

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I was introduced to a team of software engineers who’d been working on tech that aligned audio and text so that you could follow it like karaoke. What I didn’t realize at the time was that storytelling would be one of my greatest assets as the CEO of a tech scale-up. It made me feel more foreign than when I’d reported abroad.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. And that engine that we’re building in the code school space, in the software engineering space, it turns out you can abstract that into other industries, into other fields. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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CloudGeometry

APRIL 13, 2023

Rather, what ZeroOps practices bring to faster, more reliable cloud software development is the emphasis on a better developer experience for writing and improving code unique to the product and the business it supports. It does not mean that every software engineer should shoulder the burden of mastering everything everywhere all at once.

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