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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Solvers tend to be reactive to what leadership is really worried about. How do we fix it?”

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. I hosted Nick on the podcast, where we discussed the differences between management and leadership, fostering diversity in tech, and more.

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How Executives can Empower Great Design

Modus Create

In 2018, McKinsey published their Business Value of Design report summarizing how organizations with higher Design Index scores saw a correlation with higher revenue growth and, for the top quartile, higher returns to shareholders. About 90% of companies in their 2018 research aren’t fully realizing the full potential of their design teams.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. “Great leadership hinges on some sense of predictability. The predictability of the leadership team, of you, of me.

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10 Years of Balsamiq: What I’ve Learned | Peldi Guilizzoni, Balsamiq | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. In this talk from BoS USA 2018 he shared another honest update about his worries in Balsamiq’s milestone 10th year. How about we stop until the end of 2018 I do no more quarterlies. Now he’s the CTO.

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Apply to the Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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Building An Accidental Business | Cesar Kuriyama | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

This became a thriving, bootstrapped, remote only, business that became the number one paid app in Apple’s App Store in 2018. Fresh talks on entrepreneurship, product, marketing, leadership, hiring, and more dropping each week. Find out how 1Second Everyday: make remote working work. changed the business model as it grew up.

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