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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more. Andrew currently leads Meta’s efforts in AR, VR, AI, and consumer hardware across Quest, Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and more.

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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. We had been experimenting towards a very concrete goal for two months, and had made a lot of progress. This didn’t sit well with the CTO because in reality he didn’t want a strategy, he wanted a plan.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Short on time? Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. It also led to winning a Microsoft internal prize, and it was really the first time I could call myself a leader instead of a manager. Sponsorship vs. mentorship.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Intercom was created out of an epiphany in a small Dublin coffee shop because we realized that the impersonal, transactional way of doing business online just wasn’t cutting it for customers anymore. Paul Adams: Let’s not do this again and then have a retro to learn the same thing we’ve already learned five times.

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

Business of Software Conference

If you’ve seen me speak before you know how it really it’s a bonding experience for everybody in this room. And these are the times where I’ve spoken at BoS at different times and here we are right now. Few customers, happy. So we’ll try to find some other titles during the talk. It was my dream.

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10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team | Jane Austin, Babylon Health | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Jane answers the question by considering the ‘anti-problem’, sharing 10 ways designers and business people can guarantee their behaviours and activities will ensure they never see eye-to-eye, their efforts will be wasted and everyone involved will know it is not their fault. It’s completely transformed their business.