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Moxie on Murder

Crafty CTO

Moxie’s a legend in tech as creator of the Signal secure messaging app —and more importantly to cryptographers, the Signal Protocol and Double Ratchet Algorithm —and when I saw his name I immediately was looking for “technical advisor” credits. But no, this was actually CO-STARRING.

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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. There’s also your previous work experience, and how you present it. You often see entrepreneurs move into a product management role after their startup.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

When that opportunity presents itself, jump at it and go. If you’re coming into an organization, big or small, and you’re in a leadership position, you need to spend the first couple weeks just listening to the problems people on the team present to you. Darragh: Was this a formal thing at Microsoft or is there a sponsor program?