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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Woven CEO Tim Campos on how to spend your most important asset

Intercom, Inc.

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. The experience became the inspiration for his next act after Facebook: an intelligent calendar called Woven that can cut scheduling time in half. .

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. There are plenty of resources and advice on unlocking the secrets of the engineering management career path. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. What to look out for when hiring.

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ICYMI: Meet HubSpot’s Chief Product Officer, Christopher O’Donnell

OpenView Labs

I tell them that I do what I do with music, but with software engineers. And hiring people who are better than you. The oldest books in the world were, for generations, songs that were sung as epic poems. ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz. What’s your elevator pitch? I struggle to do that well.