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

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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. Liam Geraghty: Will Larson is the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation. Farhan Virji , Vice President of Customer Happiness at Later.

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11 proven, DevOps best-practices for continuous improvement

Audacix

Help team members find mentors they can trust. Cultivate timely and constructive professional tension to help your team continually raise the bar. Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Encourage & create multi-disciplinary teams to help build trust.

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GTM 125: From Flip-Flops to a $500M Exit as CRO, Secrets to Scaling with Martin Roth

Sales Hacker

He’s an advisor. We owned the long tail of search terms around construction lien rights and payments. Scott Barker: [0:27] Martin is the former longtime CRO at Levelset, from its very first dollar in ARR to later being acquired by Procore for half a billion dollars in 2021. He’s an investor. That was the business.

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GTM 132: The Rise of the Operator with Casey Woo + Special Announcement

Sales Hacker

You are the customer service representative for our CRO, our CTO. So a good example I had was I remember trying to explain to the CTO that [00:21:00] we needed like a process. So I’ve, I kind of circulated all, all, and a banker as an advisor, all CEOs and founders want three things. I say it’s customer service.