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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product. I think that's because often, as a founder CEO or founder CTO, you end up having a ton of product responsibility. This will likely be interfacing with the product team and product managers.

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My podcast tech stack, workflows, and lessons—plus a giveaway!

Lenny Rachitsky

Some of these inbound requests have turned into great episodes, but I find this channel to be the least helpful for finding great guests. I was hanging out with an ex-Airbnb colleague ( Ali Rauh ), who suggested her friend Elizabeth for the podcast (before she was promoted to CTO of Netflix). People will start to come to you.

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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you’re in marketing, for example, aim to work in inbound marketing, where you work on getting feedback from customers to influence the product. I think that's because often, as a founder CEO or founder CTO, you end up having a ton of product responsibility. This will likely be interfacing with the product team and product managers.

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Using Tailscale to Access Amazon VPCs, EC2 Instances, and RDS Clusters

Crafty CTO

The initial stopgap solution was to open a Postgres port, but with an RDS Security Group rule that limited inbound access to a few specific IP addresses. That solution became high-maintenance quickly, since some of our team connected from a university campus network, where IP addresses rotated every few weeks.

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Choosing the Right Software Partner, Part 2: Evaluating for Great People

Atomic Spin PM

Due to the ongoing mix of active and inbound projects, scheduling and committing teams to projects can be dynamic. How does the experience on your team break down? How many people have less than two years, two to five years, five to ten years, or over ten years of experience?

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

We also drove a huge amount of inbound. We had one of our execs in our New York office. The remainder of them in our San Francisco office our CTO in Reading, and the benefit of that was whether it was good news or bad news we had local strong leadership that I totally trusted and do today to retell our message there as well.