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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. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. How do we fix it?”

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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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Building An Accidental Business | Cesar Kuriyama | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

This became a thriving, bootstrapped, remote only, business that became the number one paid app in Apple’s App Store in 2018. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Find out how 1Second Everyday: make remote working work. changed the business model as it grew up.

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Building A Billion Dollar Business – Managing Objectives Against Rapid Growth | Poppy Gustafsson | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). The Chief Product Officer (CPO) or Vice President of Product Management (VP of Product) roles are more common in larger organisations, and usually report directly to the CEO. Specialisations within Product Management are also starting to emerge.

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

Business of Software Conference

Everybody needs to have a strategy. I mean I think I think it’s more about what’s your what’s your overall strategy. Right so that’s the hard thing about having strategy is it’s not just offensive it’s defensive. Becoming dominant in the U.K. So getting to the end now. Tom Adeyoola: Yeah.

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

Intercom, Inc.

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions.

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