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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. And one of the areas I work in is AWS cost management, and snacking there is so easy.

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How to Categorize Expenses in a SaaS Startup v2.0

Baremetrics

Cost of Revenue Examples Hosting AWS / Google Cloud / Azure Payroll – Customer Support Service Delivery Costs Twilio, Sendgrid Merchant Fees Stripe, Braintree You should also include software that helps your support team, such as Help Scout, or your Devops, such as CircleCI.

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PODCAST 129: The Keys to Building and Scaling a Company from Scratch with Vishal Sunak

Sales Hacker

If you missed episode 128, check it out here: How to Unshackle Your Career Growth With a Mentor with Tom Martin. How to find advisors when you’re a CEO [22:32]. Rob May being the founder and CEO of the company, and a great mentor for me. I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Help team members find mentors they can trust. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Naturally, your first choice is likely to be between choosing between AWS DevOps or Azure Devops. Encourage & create multi-disciplinary teams to help build trust.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital. If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. They’re the CEO, they’re the CTO, they never are interested in testing out the product as well. Hila Qu: That's a fantastic first question to think about. That's great.

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How to Build Happier Employees – Lessons From HubSpot’s CTO Dharmesh Shah and Chief People Officer Katie Burke

SaaStr

At SaaStr Annual we had a great session with HubSpot Founder & CTO, Dharmesh Shah, and their Chief People Officer, Katie Burke, on building happier employees. ” “I hated Katie at that company meeting, it was awful.” Dharmesh Shah : So, I asked myself, “Okay well, who can best dig into this?

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SaaStr Podcast #385 with Balsa Founder & CEO Paul Rosania

SaaStr

Paul Rosania: So let’s imagine I went to you as a CTO. Paul Rosania: Well, I think you’ll see… And in some companies you’re already seeing more of a coach support model, where managers view their jobs as supporting and enabling and unblocking the people who are doing the hard work. What is your amuse-bouche ?

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