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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership. Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Apply to the Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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They Don’t Understand Your Role as a Product Leader. But Do You?

The Product Coalition

It is only in the second edition (released in December 2017) that he added also ‘business viable’. If it took Marty almost 10 years to address this important aspect of product leadership, no wonder many product leaders don’t understand that this is part of their role.

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Time To Say Goodbye – 4 Lessons The BoS Community Taught Me

Business of Software Conference

I joined Business of Software in September 2017 as a fresh-faced and inexperienced marketer. On my 5th day in the job we flew to Boston to run BoS USA 2017. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Lesson #2 – You Are Not An Impostor.

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

Intercom, Inc.

We spent most of 2017 building it out. “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. The predictability of the leadership team, of you, of me. Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. You’ll find everyone from HubSpot CEO Yamini Rangan to Calm CTO Will Larson.

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The ‘Balance’ Audit: An Honest Inventory on Gender Equality at StubHub

StubHub

In my role as Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion at StubHub, creating a balanced climate means creating balanced teams, balanced leadership, balanced compensation, and balanced career growth. It means having strong and accomplished female professionals in important leadership roles. What does this balance look like to me?