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

Userpilot

With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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

UX Studio: Product Management

Our user experience professionals have already analyzed the expertise of dozens of design agencies in San Francisco, New York, Berlin, London, to name a few. In the past ten years, we partnered with rising startups and established brands like HBO, Netflix, the United Nations World Food Programme, and Google, to name a few.

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

Andrew Chen

Jahan Khanna, cofounder/CTO of Sidecar spoke of its origin: It was obvious that letting anyone sign up to a driver would be a big deal. After doing a ton of research, we came onto a model that had been active for years in San Francisco run by someone named Lynn Breedlove called Homobiles that answered our question.[^2].

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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. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Here we asked Will to tell us a little about the four archetypes of staff roles, namely architect, tech lead, solver, and right hand. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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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

Sima Banijamali : “I started in tech in 2009, and in 2010 I moved to Sweden from Iran and started studying. Sima : “When I was in Sweden – and this is what I’ve been hearing from a lot of nationalities – there is a lot of bias around your name. I made my way to operations, and then into product.”

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

Business of Software Conference

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. And then in 2010, we got our first customer. Then we realized that, hey, like this small thing, which is just the name of the company, which if you talk to a Fortune company, probably say, it doesn’t really matter. Wrong foot.

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Leading A High-Growth Company | David Cancel, Drift | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

So it was always like and I finally I sold it in before I started Performable like 2010 and because I never thought it was a business. And then I stumbled upon another man another person named Sam who’s my next mentor. So I have like three mentors named Sam. And but obviously it could have been massive.