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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Short on time? Managers and leaders are different.

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3 key takeaways from International Women’s Day 2021

Intercom, Inc.

It’s not just that more diverse teams are more effective and more profitable ( though they are ); but, as Karen Peacock, our CEO, says , “It’s just the right thing to do.”. That was a shocker for me because I didn’t hear that language growing up and it wasn’t a part of my scope,” she says. And I believed it. I really like working.

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Management coach Lara Hogan on perfecting the leadership craft

Intercom, Inc.

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. Lara: Absolutely.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ll have some time. It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. I used it in kind of my breakfast pre warm-up, the crazy times we’re in. From Satya from Homebrew, we just heard that seed’s at an all time high.

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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

When it comes to seamlessly scaling your applications, a top-notch engineering team will be your foundation. We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. So today we are a distributed team. Of course, behind this product, we have a super strong team.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

What I’m hoping this post provides is an objective look at the world of technology start-ups—the good, the bad, and the ugly. I find that refreshing. I can name dozens of people in tech that I genuinely find to be more impressive, smart, and thoughtful than our very best politicians, for example.

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The Genius With 1,000 Helpers

OpenView Labs

It’s a great time to be a founder. Let’s qualify that statement: It’s a great time to be a founder of a revenue-generating, venture-funded company. These are optimistic times. A founder, on the other hand, has deep institutional knowledge, and many times only they know what they know. Why change?