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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Nick Caldwell: I’m VP of engineering at Reddit.

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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

In 2018, McKinsey published their Business Value of Design report summarizing how organizations with higher Design Index scores saw a correlation with higher revenue growth and, for the top quartile, higher returns to shareholders. About 90% of companies in their 2018 research aren’t fully realizing the full potential of their design teams.

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The most critical relationship for product managers to build

The Product Coalition

These more senior engineers often find themselves in a challenging role, splitting their time between individual contributor responsibilities as well as management duties. At an early stage startup this may be the co-founder/CTO. At mid to later stage, this is more likely a Senior Engineer.

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The 5 Most Watched BoS Talks of the Decade

Business of Software Conference

– David Heinemeier Hansson (Founder/CTO, Basecamp). 4 // The Product-Market Fit Engine – Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman). That was Rahul Vohra’s thesis at Business of Software USA 2018. I think it’s fair to say that Gail has authority when talking about negotiating how to grow and scale a business.

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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

I said look I want to build this game engine from scratch how easy would it be. Whereas in the UK we build incredible chassis the engines is beautiful and you go and try and sell that to somebody and they go “Well you know what is it? How am I going to actually…” But look at it look at the engine! So I went to visit him.

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Weight Watchers Chief Product Officer exclusive interview discussing product management…

The Product Coalition

Engineering reports to our fabulous CTO. What are your top 3 priorities for 2018 when it comes to your brands digital product? One thing I’m specifically interested in, at this particular moment, is how companies are thinking about attracting talent, especially engineering talent. This is new for us.