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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

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. Karen Peacock: In college, I studied math and computer science and engineering.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

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. David Cancel // CEO & Co-founder, Drift.