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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems.

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Innovate or Die: Using Technology to Avoid the Retail Graveyard

The Product Coalition

by Sergey Kizyan, CTO, Intetics Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Gymboree’s Chief Restructuring Officer James Mesterharm actually admitted that the company’s web systems were “dated and unsupported.” one that actually sold technology but failed to implement it?—?is Toys-R-Us, Radio Shack, Payless Shoes?—?all

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Give Your Team Away: CPO Lessons from Christopher O’Donnell, CPO at Hubspot

Gainsight

Founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan , Chief Executive Officer, and Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer, Hubspot is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with offices and customers worldwide. The understanding is that each Hub is powerful alone but better together.

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2019 Goals Gone off the Rails? 3 Ways to get Back on Track

Mind the Product

Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”. Nothing personal with CTOs … for example purposes only!). An Approach goal brings us towards a desired outcome. An Avoidance goal moves away from an undesired outcome. Are they working towards something positive?

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TEI 214: Want more innovation? Build a partner program – with Ed Krause

Product Innovation Educators

In 2006, we added Michigan and Northwestern to the program. We run an annual proposal submission process that culminates in a review with our CTO. In 2006, we added Michigan and Northwestern to the program. My team is responsible for our global R&D alliances with universities, national laboratories, and a few companies.

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Le Mans, Unabridged

Crafty CTO

Audi has likewise innovated on its internal combustion engine: starting in 2006, Audi made an unprecedented switch to diesel power. It’s shaping up to be a great race, perhaps as exciting as the classic Audi - Peugeot duels of 2006-2011.

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Launching a New Breakout Product | Jason Fried | BoS USA Online 2020

Business of Software Conference

And then you end up building multiple products over a number of years, we launched in 2004, we launch Basecamp, and 2005, we launch Ta-da list, and then we launched Backpack in the same year in 2006, we launched Campfire. I did see a question about Jeff Bezos Yes, Jeff Bezos owns a small piece of Basecamp, which we sold him in 2006.