The Product Guy
APRIL 15, 2025
At this months TPG Live , we explored two of the most persistent challenges in product leadership: How do you build trust and alignment between enterprise users and buyers? How do hybrid product teams stay aligned and effective across time zones and work styles?
Lenny Rachitsky
JANUARY 14, 2025
Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders. Depending on the size and stage of your business, one of these frames may be more interesting to your teams and leadership. Absolutely not.
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Lenny Rachitsky
APRIL 6, 2025
.” Where to find Wes Kao: • LinkedIn: [link] • Website: [link] • Maven course: [link] In this episode, we cover: ( 00:00 ) Introduction to Wes Kao ( 05:34 ) Working with Wes ( 06:58 ) The importance of communication ( 10:44 ) Sales before logistics ( 18:20 ) Being concise ( 24:31 ) Books to help you become a better writer ( (..)
Lenny Rachitsky
OCTOBER 27, 2024
In our conversation, we discuss: How she originally landed at Facebook The evolution of Facebook’s growth team and key metrics Lessons from working with Mark Zuckerberg Insights from Facebook’s activation metric and retention strategies Leadership lessons and “Naomiisms” for effective product management Tactics for creating (..)
Speaker: Steve McConnell, CEO, Construx Software
Join Steve McConnell, CEO of Construx Software, as he distills hundreds of companies’-worth of real-world experience into the proven Agile leadership practices that work best. But how do you know if you're succeeding?
Crafty CTO
JULY 27, 2025
The Latent Space podcast had an excellent interview with Andrew Hsu , cofounder and CTO at AI-generation language learning platform Speak. This is what my life is evolving towards these days as a fractional CTO. It’s a fun time to be a CTO … Here’s the video snip from the interview via the Snipd AI podcast player:
Arkenea
JULY 8, 2025
When we launched Zomato (then FoodieBay), I ended up putting together a basic version of the product, and we hired a student from IIT as an intern (Gunjan, now our CTO), to work on the first version of the product. To my mind, a tech startup should try to avoid outsourcing the first version of their product.
Speaker: Ron Lichty, Consultant: Interim VP Engineering, Ron Lichty Consulting, Inc.
As a senior software leader, you likely spend more time working on the architecture of your systems than the architecture of your organization. Yet, structuring our teams and organizations is a critical factor for success. The wrong organizational structure can create friction of all kinds.
Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC
Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril. Most of our development teams hate providing estimates and many managers are starting to view them as unnecessary. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams?
Speaker: Michael Carducci, CTO, Mago:Tech
We might be trying to get our CEO on-board with investment in a new technology or a rearchitecture effort, or we might want culture or process changes by our team. As senior tech leaders, we often fall prey to thinking that a “good idea” and logical case is sufficient to get the desired response and result.
Speaker: Alex Rasmussen, CEO, Bits on Disk
If you want to make your development team squirm, ask them about database schema changes or API versioning. Most development teams struggle with changing database schemas and updating API versions without breaking existing code. Alex Rasmussen is an expert in helping teams through these struggles.
Speaker: Roy Osherove, Technology and Leadership Consultant
Roy Osherove, the author of Elastic Leadership, is going to provide some answers that come from his experience seeing this across many different organizations. And the answers focus on leadership. Which leadership styles are most effective for each mode. When and how to encourage learning in your team.
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker/Author, The Lazy Project Manager
Business agile is an approach that gives the right business flexibility and fast decision-making in a volatile environment, providing a great capacity for innovation, adaptation and change. Businesses everywhere are trying to “get business agile”—but it’s not easy to adapt to becoming this adaptive.
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