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Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom

SaaStr

Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom Eric Yuan joined WebEx as one of the first several software engineers. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. He started the company with 40 engineers, many of whom followed him from Cisco.

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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

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with Peter Fernandez, COO & Co-Founder at Sirius Support Innovative businesses, investing, m&a and meeting great people with Paul Evans, EGM, Corporate Development at Xero SaaS distribution for SMBs in the African continent with Karan Bathija, VP, Customer Success at Terragon Limited PLUS 13 more Braindates that are ALREADY FULL!

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Building a Product-Led Growth Machine: Office Hours with GC Lionetti

Tom Tunguz

Previously, GC served as Vice President of Self-Serve Growth at Dropbox, and also led Product Marketing for the Developer Tools Division at Atlassian. Travis is Head of Founder Experience at Redpoint and was formerly SVP of Global Sales at Optimizely and VP of Platform Sales at Salesforce. How do you think about hiring?

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

Intercom, Inc.

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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Apple quietly stops meaningful auto-updates in iOS

IT World

Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has quietly said that Apple has dramatically slowed down auto updates — by as much as a month. In the mobile world pitting Apple’s iOS devices against Google’s Android devices, Apple has historically had one distinct advantage: patches and updates.

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Companies move to drop college degree requirements for new hires, focus on skills

IT World

At Google, a four-year degree is not required for almost any role at the company — and a computer science degree isn't required for most software engineering or product manager positions. Similarly, Bank of America has refocused its hiring efforts on a skills-based approach.

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Connect/Enterprise: Building Products With Generative AI

Andreessen Horowitz

Atlassian President Anu Bharadwaj spoke with a16z General Partner Kristina Shen about Atlassian’s product and go-to-market strategy, including, in this clip, how the company is using generative AI to build new products for its diverse set of users and the changing definition of “teams.” We can identify the early winners.