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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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How to Become a Cloud Architect: The Ultimate Career Path Guide

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

However, the role of a cloud architect is not an entry-level position. You will need extensive technical experience to qualify for most professional cloud architect positions. Testing programs to meet user needs using programming languages such as C++, Java, and Python. So, how do you become a cloud architect then?

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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. Yet no one in the meeting asked that question. In subsequent conversations with the CTO, I then realized what he meant by agile: He was simply referring to the ability to pivot when business conditions change.

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How Benn Stancil’s newsletter became the cure for data biz ‘thought leadership’

Mixpanel

This isn’t your typical executive “thought leadership.” You’re a company founder and a CTO. In the very early days of Mode, there were three of us: our CEO, who was off talking to investors, our CTO, who was chained to a desk building the product, and me. What do you think of the state of your industry’s “thought leadership”?

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Dune's Leadership Lessons : Transforming Product Management with Duke Leto's People-First Approach

People-First Product Leadership

His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. Instead it’s their grit and positive character that stands out.

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Guide to the Software Engineer Career Path

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? On the contrary, as you will soon see, it is possible to advance into very lucrative and high-level engineering positions as an individual contributor (Principal Software Engineer). Trying to better understand the software engineer career path?

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User Personas, Buyer Personas, and the Missing Link in B2B

Product Management University

Your product should be designed to meet the specific needs of individuals within an organization with the goal of making them quantifiably better at their job (user persona). Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). The IT Director or CTO (Influential Decision Maker). From the Bottom Up. The Importance of Department Personas.

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