Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. • Sendbird —The (all-in-one) communications API platform for mobile apps • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. The company values transparency and open communication from everyone, including leadership.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 3, 2024

Striking a balance between involvement and delegation is key to effective leadership. 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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2024

— Will Larson is Chief Technology Officer at Carta. Prior to joining Carta, he was the CTO at Calm and held engineering leadership roles at Stripe, Uber, and Digg. Simplify security.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Our Dublin team is led by our co-founders Des Traynor (our Chief Strategy Officer) and Ciaran Lee (our Chief Technology Officer), along with Paul Adams, leading product management, design and research, and Darragh Curran, leading engineering. Paul needs no introduction for most of you reading this.

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Valerian Tech

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The role of a Fractional Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is to provide technical expertise and leadership to a company on a part-time or temporary basis. This can be a useful option for startups or small businesses that may not have the resources to hire a full-time CTO or may not need one on a permanent basis.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. But the overlooked reality of a leadership position means that other people own your time.

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Roy Madden

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

This does not imply, however, that only the leadership team determines this strategy. The technology strategy and roadmap, finally, are owned by the CTO together with senior architects. Figure 3: Ownership of the Strategy Stack Elements In Figure 5, the business strategy is owned by the CEO and the C-suite, company’s executives.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2022

I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. In subsequent conversations with the CTO, I then realized what he meant by agile: He was simply referring to the ability to pivot when business conditions change. are unclear, please communicate with your clients and leadership.

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Mind the Product

JULY 9, 2018

They operate independently with a product development team, maybe on a smaller product or area, and under the leadership and mentorship of a more senior product manager. In many ways this is analogous to the Architect track in engineering (in contrast to the CTO track), and something we should encourage more.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? Myself and our CTO have been side-by-side in leading and working with our small caretaker team. Think about how you will re-establish working relationships once normality returns, consider what the ‘new normal’ will be. Have a co-captain.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

The role of the Chief Product Officer is different to that of a Chief Technology Officer or Chief Marketing Officer. CPOs require technical knowledge in their industry, they need to understand the needs of the customer and they need to possess leadership ability.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

When leadership asked them to make a decision they got stuck in spin cycles because they didn’t know what they were trying to achieve. Eventually leadership would lose patience and make the decision, perpetually continuing the empowerment disillusionment cycle.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Your career will benefit from being in environments with strong talent and leadership, even if the company isn’t perfect. Don’t stress over having a five-year plan. Instead, focus on where talented people you respect are working.

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Daniel Elizalde IoT Blog

APRIL 9, 2018

Aaron Allsbrook, Chief Technology Officer at ClearBlade, shares his experience developing industrial IoT solutions at scale. The post IoT Product Leadership – Episode 07: The Power of Edge Computing in IIoT Applications appeared first on Daniel Elizalde.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For company leadership too, encouraging product managers to operate strategically can feel like a way to optimize both accountability and empowerment for an often-ambiguous role. What happens when company leadership fails to provide actionable high-level goals? CTOs are giving updates at team stand-ups. Teams, you’re empowered!”

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Darragh Curran , our Chief Technology Officer, emphasizes how promoting diversity has to be more than just a question of how we hire. Diverse teams are repeatedly proven to be more innovative, productive, and happier.”. Investing in education.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Now Senior Operating Partner at GV (we still slip up and call it Google Ventures), Ken was a CTO and CEO/founder before he joined Yahoo! Ken Norton needs no introduction.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Drawing upon a rich vein of experiences — from leadership roles in engineering to insightful albeit brief stints as a founder and CTO and steering roles focusing on morphing concepts into market-ready products — my tenure in this vibrant ecosystem has been incredible.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Executive Leadership (The Ultimate Buyer). Executive leadership buyer personas need to know your product can impact the organization’s overall strategic goals. Executive leadership buyer personas need to know your product can impact the organization’s overall strategic goals. Examples of B2B Buyer Personas.

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Arkenea

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Marc Brown, HealthTech Founder and CTO with 20 years of experience building products and leading engineering teams talks about agentic workflows in healthcare, staying curious to foster innovation in tech teams and qualities that make a successful CTO. How do you see the role of technology evolving in patient care over the next decade?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mixcloud CTO and co-founder Mat Clayton helped bootstrap his company from humble beginnings in an empty warehouse with no internet connection to more than 15 million active users over a 10-year period, all before they took their first round of funding. He joined us to talk about startup life, scaling, making hard decisions, and more.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

Complete Solutions Architect Interview Prep Course Our solution architect interview course helps you review the most important system design principles and leadership principles to ace your solution architect interview, with detailed questions and mock interviews. So, if you work in tech, you surely know what a Chief Technology Officer is.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. Work with your design leadership to ask what steps it would take to right-size the design team’s staffing to meet your goals. Embrace Iteration. user group events.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? Soft skills, such as communication, conflict management, and leadership, play a more vital role than hard, technical skills. They need both technical expertise and managerial soft skills like communication and leadership.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I’m specifically excluding roles that are primarily development management: VP Engineering, CTO, CIO, Director of Development, Engineering Manager, Project Office, or Agile Transformation Leader. It’s no wonder that folks are confused, frustrated, and fail to get the product leadership they need.

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Arkenea

AUGUST 23, 2024

Wali Khan, a healthcare technology leader with over two decades of experience enabling business capabilities through the development of innovative software products and solutions talks about the role of AI in current and future projects, what it takes to be a successful CTO in the healthcare sector and more.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Prior to Airbnb, Vlad spent a year at Zynga, where he helped grow Words with Friends to over 14 million daily active users.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 7, 2024

” TikTok fosters a leadership culture of “context, not control” that encourages ownership and decentralized decision-making. Ray describes TikTok’s thinking as “How can I run the second half of my marathon faster than the first?”

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

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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