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Buy or build? Focus on the core product or innovate? Zendesk CTO Adrian McDermott's advice for scaling

The Review by First Round

Today’s episode is with Adrian McDermott, CTO of Zendesk. Adrian started at the company back in 2010, when they were only 50 employees. Since then, he’s led product management and engineering teams as the company has gone public and scaled to over 5000 employees.

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

Tim has spent his entire professional career focusing on productivity, from Sybase to TLA-Tencor to Facebook where, over his six-year tenure (2010 – 2016), the amount of revenue per employee doubled to $1.8 By retiring technologies proactively , you can remain focused on consistently moving the needle. million apiece.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. Keep on reading to learn about his journey into product management , his recommended newsletters and podcast episodes, and his top tips for product management success.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. And no one knows this better than Zanade Mann, founder and Managing Director of the Black Women’s Business Collective. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path.

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My top essays/tweetstorms in 2019 on product/market fit, investing, KPIs, YouTubers, and more

Andrew Chen

I managed to fix that bad prediction. For everyone who joined in the early years – 2010 to 2014 – they’ve already hit their 4 year mark and many are spinning out. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Lively discussion here. The Law of Shitty Cohorts.

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

For workplace apps, these are the managers that author and create documents and projects, and who invite coworkers to participate. Focus on attracting content creators to a new video platform, or sellers to a new marketplace, or the project managers inside a company to a new workplace app. The other side of the network will follow.

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Best-rated Sacramento Web Design Companies to Work With in 2022

UX Studio: Product Management

Since 2010, the company has served local businesses, non-profit organizations, and government agencies with innovative web design and cutting-edge software development solutions. Since 2010, Post MM has helped its clients with lead generation, web design, and development. A full-service web development firm based in Sacramento.