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Product Scaling Secrets from 4 Companies that Cracked the Code

ProductPlan

At the time, he says the company’s co-founder and CTO personally reviewed almost every product decision. As Lynch recalls, the CTO was busy, but the review process seemed to work well while the team was still small. However, as the team grew, it became difficult for anyone to get time with the CTO.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson. Here’s Rachel. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

For everyone who joined in the early years – 2010 to 2014 – they’ve already hit their 4 year mark and many are spinning out. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. The really early folks are investing. The ATG / Otto folks are making moves as well.

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5 Product Management Conferences Not to Miss in 2020

Revulytics

Organized by The Product Collective founded in 2014, INDUSTRY brings together product managers to build a community - especially outside of Silicon Valley. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. The attendees are from a wide range of seniority levels which allows for a greater breadth of speaker presentations.

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. Subscribe now People should matter more than the location I’ve been working remotely since 2014. Subscribe now Looking back over your work life, what leaders stand out to you?

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

For everyone who joined in the early years – 2010 to 2014 – they’ve already hit their 4 year mark and many are spinning out. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. The really early folks are investing. The ATG / Otto folks are making moves as well.

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Le Mans, Unabridged

Crafty CTO

Toyota Racing was a top contender in 2014, winning the World Endurance Championship, but in 2015 Porsche and Audi both pulled significantly ahead. Casual, unscripted interviews are happening continuously. One of my favorites this year was with Anthony Davidson , co-driver of the #1 Toyota TS040 Hybrid.