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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. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. The first time I ever walked into the Facebook office, the HQ in Palo Alto circa 2010, I was driving from the Google offices into the Facebook offices, and holy s**t, the difference.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. This ensured women got fewer messages, and hopefully more of the right ones. Only to prospective dates rather than work colleagues.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. I started changing my answer not fast enough from I can do this for you to I’ll help you get it done with coaching resources tools and time right. Loneliness.

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

Business of Software Conference

So it was always like and I finally I sold it in before I started Performable like 2010 and because I never thought it was a business. You know that was fun times and so by the time I sort of Drift to fast forward I was obsessed about some trends that were happening; one of them was messaging. That’s the difference.