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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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Quality of Life: What Does It Mean For A Start-Up?

SaaStr

In many ways, your Quality of Life will simply be awful. In my first start-up as a founder, I had a great CTO and VPE and a pretty darn good VP Ops from the very beginning. Your quality of life will simply be awful if your co-founders aren’t as committed as you, and if they aren’t at least close to as good as you.

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Forgot the SaaS Gloom and Doom on Social. ‘Just Build’ with SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

You can see the growth on the platform side with Azure, Google, and AWS and how much it’s accelerating in AI. Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet. To some extent, it’s not clear. Maybe endless price increases,” Jason says. A lot of it is moving to versions of AI. Dell fell 15% last week.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Julien Lemoine | Co-founder and CTO @Algolia. So I’m Julien, Co-founder and CTO of Algolia. Want to see more content like this?

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

Sales Hacker

The secrets to effective leadership and management. 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. Using a network of trusted peers to accelerate your development. Staffing a team of field sales, inside sales, and sales engineers in lockstep. We’re on iTunes.

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

Sales Hacker

Vishal Sunak: Thankfully now I have a great sales team filled with great sales leadership. I got the infrastructure, I got the AWS bill, don’t worry about it. Like my CTO, Eric, he’s like, “Dude, I got it all. RELATED: Key Qualities of great Sales Leadership w/ Dan Fougere. Don’t worry about it.”

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Weekly Walk with Matson’s CIO, Peter Weis

OpenView Labs

So, this started, it was a nine-year slog actually, and it started not with the CIO or the CTO, it started with the CEO and then started with a technology vision- we’re going to go to the cloud and shut down our data centers. We made some smart bets on technology. Casey: It’s not that easy? Absolutely beautiful.

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