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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And here at Intercom, 2021 saw us reach many milestones.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. To make things even more confusing, junior or first-time developers may not understand the terms used at different companies to describe software engineers.

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips. Why Are You Hiring?

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. But it’s gone by pretty quickly. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Our Q2 FY22 letter to shareholders

Atlassian

Marty Hagewood, a software development manager at EMC Insurance Companies, experienced this first-hand. What’s more, they see Atlassian Cloud as being critical to their success and are embracing the new opportunities around migrations, sales, and app development it provides. Forrester Wave, Enterprise Service Management Q4 2021.

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Product-Led Growth Index 2022

Gainsight

Along with RevOps Squared, a benchmarking research firm, we surveyed over 600 companies of various sizes, with varying annual contract values and across multiple industries, to learn about their journeys towards implementing PLG strategies. Of companies that use product experience data, 57% use it to develop product roadmaps.

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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

Userpilot

78% of women in tech report feeling like they must work harder than male coworkers to prove themselves [Source: Trustradius , 2021]. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. Again…Why? Maybe because it’s harder for them. That took me to the FinTech and then SaaS industry.