Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

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.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2021

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.

Part-Time VPE 209

Part-Time VPE Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Engineering 209

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

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.

Leadership 118

Leadership Part-Time VPE Management Underperforming Technical Team 118

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

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.

Investment 208

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 208

SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

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.

Scale 167

Scale Scaling CTO Hire Part-Time VPE 167

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

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.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

OpenView Labs

JUNE 23, 2021

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?

Part-Time VPE 71

Part-Time VPE Scale Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development 71