Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The book did not disappoint: it was a fascinating history starting from his childhood, to his early startup adventures with Zip2 and PayPal, to a deep dive into how he willed SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity into existence and ultimately to success despite the odds being continually stacked against him.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Unsure of what tech career path she wanted to tread, Oluwatobi’s career began at a startup. “At startups, you get to be hands-on in almost everything that’s needed for the company to succeed,” she says, “and so I started software development, learnt animation, offered IT support, and customer service.”

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Amplitude

MAY 8, 2018

If you’re a product person, chances are high you’ve logged on to something Brent Tworetzky has helped build or even attended an event that he’s hosted. I started as a software engineer, then tried my hand as a management consultant, account manager, venture capitalist, and startup founder before I found the right fit in product management.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

Spread across the Asia and Pacific region, they not only have day jobs in product management, but also often write blogs, teach, and/or organise events for the community. She is currently running a startup in Australia and lecturing on product management for INSEAD. She started her career as a software engineer.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. People are connected for commerce, communication, collaboration, and more. Colorful flags from every country hung from the ceiling.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear. Plan an event. Get experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear. Plan an event. Get experience.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 6, 2020

He also an active blogger, and frequent speaker at industry events about startups, SaaS, and cloud computing. Upcoming Events. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? I saw that at an actual conference. Upcoming Events.

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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. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. It would dramatically reduce the amount of software engineering activity we need to do.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. Tendayi Viki (Founder, Benneli Jacobs) – Clever Ideas Are Not Enough For Innovation from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events. You’ve all heard about the Lean Startup movement right.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. The Lean Startup. That’s a lot.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. ML : Describe David Cancel.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard. The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? Or ‘let me teach you how to start a startup’.

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