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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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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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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

We define Product Management as the engine of an organisation that creates value for customers. See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). Sometimes, the CPO or VP of Product also plays the role of CTO, overseeing Engineering , in addition to product and design.

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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. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. Stephanie Hannon, CPO at Strava.

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

Business of Software Conference

So I just googled “Leading expert computer vision”. I said look I want to build this game engine from scratch how easy would it be. Maybe this technology solution could be the answer. I felt the computer vision was crucial. How am I going to actually…” But look at it look at the engine! Where’s my seat?

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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. So again very disorganized but I’m able to get good output out of all the engineers.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. For Slack, that was clearly the engineering and dev communities, who love new tools. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. That was the question posed to Rachel Hepworth.

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