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4 Keys to Empowering Your Product Team

Mind the Product

We talk so much about empowering people because all of our policies and procedures have taken so much of their power away. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. If they go over budget, controls are activated to stabilize things and coach them to be more effective.

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Book Review: Technology Is Not Neutral: A Short Guide to Technology Ethics

Business of Software Conference

In the neutral corner… On the side of neutrality, she discusses the views of people including Demis Hassabis – DeepMind founder, Verner Vogels – Amazon CTO and others who argue broadly that technology is neutral but can be applied for good and bad. Now Pentagon Advisor. Is technology neutral?

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. I personally love to be early and use the opportunity to set the bar really high in the market. You can think of control as a policy, a process, a tool you put in place to help prevent a bad thing from happening or ensure a good thing is happening.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this episode of Inside Intercom, our Director of Brand Marketing Sarah Tran had the honour of sitting down with Amanda for a chat about how governments can leverage technology to build better services and empower its citizens.

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Unlocking Agility and Scalability: Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

Valerian Tech

Cloud-native development enables rapid iteration, automatic scaling, and faster time-to-market. It's important to establish robust data governance policies, encrypt sensitive data, and regularly monitor and audit cloud environments. Vendor Lock-In: Vendor lock-in is a concern when relying on a single cloud service provider.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

A really detailed 68 page analysis of the podcast market. Magic metrics indicating a startup probably has product/market fit. 5) market-by-market (or logo-by-logo, if SaaS) comparison where denser/older networks have higher engagement over time (network effects). The podcast ecosystem in 2019. It’s super fun.

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

Business of Software Conference

The market has given us permission to exist for 10 years. And you know what they say as well – at some point the CEO has to step back and take a strategic role so they have time to do visioning and look at the market and not be involved in the day to day of the operation. Thinking that I’m not going to be here forever.