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

Intercom, Inc.

How do I do a better job of supporting and helping the staff engineers that I worked with? Brian: One of the most interesting things about the approach to the book was how important the crowdsourcing part was. Another good example is from my own personal experience at my last job at Stripe. How do we fix it?”

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Finding & Nurturing Top Talent | Elpie Bannister & Alex Yang | BoS Europe 2019

Business of Software Conference

Alex Yang: For those of you who are wondering why you just got Rick-rolled, Elpie and I decided to crowdsource our walk on song from our team. For example, we’ve developed a very good relationship with the engineering school in France and our two cloud engineers came from that school. That’s great.