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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. It’s like, “Hey, you have to mentor a number of folks coming up.”

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Leisa tweets at @leisa and occasionally blogs at disambiguity.com. Previously, he was co-founder and CTO of Virage, where he oversaw the technical direction of the company from its founding through to its NASDAQ IPO. Kate Leto, Product Coach. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft. See you in July!

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

Find a sponsor , not a mentor — someone who is in the room when opportunities arise and makes sure your name comes up. Darragh: You wrote a blog post recently about the impact of having sponsors during your time at Microsoft. It’s more challenging to get than a mentor. That translates into missions that we carry out day to day.

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

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. And then I realized that there was a lot I needed to coach. Peldi Guilizzoni, Founder/CEO, Balsamiq.

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Here’s what our Business of Software Conference USA 2018 Speakers are Reading

Business of Software Conference

Mikey Trafton, Alamo Drafthouse, CTO. I don’t think a single book has had the “biggest” influence on me, but rather lessons from many books and blogs: Most recently I loved Lost and Founder: A painfully honest field guide to the start-up world by my friend Rand. Good to Great by Jim Collins. Rich Mironov, Mironov Consulting.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

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International Women’s Day: Reflections from female leaders in product & tech

Mixpanel

“I’m currently the founder of LevelUp, a startup aiming to revolutionize mentorship by creating a platform connecting women mentors and mentees based on role, industry, career interests, and goals. I’ve personally struggled a lot with finding an appropriate professional mentor and started LevelUp to fix this problem.