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“What Do You Mean They Quit?!” Don’t Give Your Engineers a Reason to Leave with Notion’s Head of Engineering: Michael Manapat, Change.org’s CTO: Elaine Zhou, and Plato’s CEO: Quang Hoang (Video)

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Co-founder and CEO of Plato, Quong Hoang, the #1 mentoring platform for engineering leaders , helped moderate a discussion between CTO of Change.org, Elaine Zhou, and Head of Engineering at Notion, Michael Manapat, on this subject. They also work to see if the engineer desires to build a product and not just implement technology.

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Dear SaaStr: How Does a First Time Founder Identify 10x Hires?

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How do you hire a great CTO, a great VP of Product, a great VP of Sales … if you’ve never worked with one? First, interview at least 30. But by interview 10-15, you’ll find at least 1 that stands out. Third, ask your mentors and investors for intros to the best they’ve worked with.

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ICYMI: Meet Mailchimp’s CTO Eric Muntz

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Today I’m talking to Eric Muntz, CTO at Mailchimp , to find out what he believes are the most important qualities of a leader, his secret to achieving inbox zero, and the TV show he’s been on twice. And if I could do that and coach baseball… it’d be the jam. Listen to clips from Casey’s interview with Eric. ? ? ?.

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Transcript of Redpoint Office Hours with Stripe’s Chief Corporate Advisor and former COO, Claire Hughes Johnson and Redpoint Managing Director, Tomasz Tunguz

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A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. We have the formidable Claire Hughes Johnson, who is the chief corporate advisor at Stripe.

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

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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. It’s like, “Hey, you have to mentor a number of folks coming up.”

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Yesware: Coping with the everyday struggles on the way to $20M+ ARR

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He interviewed him a year ago for another episode of the SaaS Revolution Show where the focus was on the part of the story that showcased Yesware’s success to date. Matthew started Yesware in 2010 together with his co-founder and CTO Cashman Andrus. You can find more information about his executive coach, Jerry Colonna here.

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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

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Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. You can also read the full transcript of the interview, which has been lightly edited for clarity, below. So, early advice, it was just surrounding myself with mentors, advisors, folks who have been there that we could learn from, and being open to that.

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