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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more. Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective 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. That’s because a well-designed video game solves for all these problems.

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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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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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Reflections on leadership, culture, & growth | Kieran O’Neill | BoS Online Europe 2020

Business of Software Conference

Prior to Thread, Kieran founded one of the first video sharing websites aged 15 and sold it for $1.25M aged 19. Video below. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. He was then CEO and co-founder of Playfire, the largest social network for gamers, which he grew to 1.5

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The Future of Product Management by Richard Harrison

Mind the Product

Watch the video to see Richard’s talk in full. The role of the Chief Product Officer is different to that of a Chief Technology Officer or Chief Marketing Officer. What it takes to be a CPO. Future of the CPO. Or read on for an overview of his key points. Product Management Trends.

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Hiring a Head of Product | Rich Mironov | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

We write wildly aspirational job descriptions for candidates and we confuse subject/market expertise with product management/leadership experience to name just a few errors. Cross-functional leadership. Video & slides below. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week.