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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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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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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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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

Userpilot

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying.

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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.

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Growth, Funding, Pivotal Moments and the Evolution of Adzerk to Kevel

Business of Software Conference

And then in 2010, we got our first customer. We’ve always tried to be pretty engineering and product heavy, just because we are, we’re, we’re built for developers and product managers. So, managed to get the deal done still, with the firm that we liked the best out of the one that we had multiple term sheets.