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Intercom’s Rich Archbold on how to run less software

Intercom, Inc.

Over time I had eight different jobs there and progressed from an engineer, to technical project manager, to technical program manager, to manager, to a manager of managers. You can think of them beginning from very base infrastructural technologies, and in our case we’re betting exclusively on AWS as a cloud vendor.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Loosely-typed, scripted programming languages accelerate the requirements feedback loop between customers and developers. Yet they live on borrowed time. Frankencloud happens when the speed of customer-facing feature development is paid for by charging interest to functions outside of the direct control of the application developers.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. We have someone that probably 98 percent of you know virtually or socially in some sense, Dharmesh Shah, founder and CTO of HubSpot. ” We didn’t do any annual contracts.

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

Intercom, Inc.

That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time. 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.

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

Sales Hacker

Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam Jacobs: Today on the show, we’ve got Vishal Sunak, CEO and co-founder of LinkSquares, a company that applies AI to your contract. Sam’s Corner [28:45]. Show Introduction [00:10]. What is LinkSquares?

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Unlocking Agility and Scalability: Harnessing the Power of Cloud Computing

Valerian Tech

In this blog post, we will delve into the world of cloud computing, exploring recent trends and developments. Here are some recent trends and developments in the cloud computing space: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Adoption: Many organizations are adopting hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to leverage the benefits of multiple cloud providers.

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PODCAST 28: How High Growth SaaS Companies Build and Lead Sales Teams w/ Chris Degnan

Sales Hacker

Using a network of trusted peers to accelerate your development. Follow the Demand and Hire Accordingly [16:07]. Chris was actually the first sales hire at Snowflake. We are native to the cloud, we are on AWS, we are on Microsoft, Azure, and next year we’ll be on Google Cloud as well. What You’ll Learn.

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