Jul 16
Why Plaid’s COO cold-calls new hires | Eric Sager (COO of Plaid)
In the latest episode of Executive Function, Brett sits down with Eric Sager, COO of Plaid, following stints as CRO of Bluevine and Head of Sales at Square. During his seven-year tenure at Plaid, Eric has helped lead the business through a pandemic, Visa's collapsed acquisition, ... Show More
1h 9m
Jun 25
How Supabase became the essential infrastructure for the AI era | Paul Copplestone (Co-founder, CEO)
In this episode of In Depth, Brett sits down with Paul Copplestone, co-founder and CEO of Supabase, the open-source Postgres platform now serving more than seven million developers. Before Supabase, Paul launched a Thumbtack-style marketplace in Southeast Asia and co-founded an o ... Show More
59m 53s
Jun 4
How to build a beloved tech brand | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (CMO, Figma)
In today's conversation, Brett sits down with CMO of Figma, Sheila Joglekar Vashee. Previously the second marketing hire at Dropbox, where she helped scale the company past $1 billion in revenue, she now leads marketing at Figma fresh off its IPO. In an industry that has spent a ... Show More
1 h
Jan 2024
How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)
<p><strong>Sam Schillace</strong> is deputy CTO and corporate vice president at Microsoft. Prior to working at Microsoft, Sam started a company called Writely, which was acquired by Google and became the foundation of what today is Google Docs. While at Google, Sam helped lead ma ... Show More
1h 27m
Oct 2020
#119 with Josh Elman - How To Get The Benefits of Entrepreneurship Without Starting a Company
Sam Parr (@theSamParr) and Shaan Puri (@ShaanVP) are joined by Josh Elman (@joshelman) on the pod today. Elman is a veteran of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Robinhood to name a few. This guy knows Silicon Valley and growth better than anyone else. In today’s episode you’ll hea ... Show More
54m 57s
Sam Schillace is the CVP and Deputy CTO at Microsoft. Before Microsoft, Sam held prominent engineering roles at Google and Box. He has also founded six startups, including Writely, which was acquired by Google and became Google Docs.
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In today’s episode, we discuss:
Sam’s advice for future engineers
What’s next for AI
How to develop technical taste
The ... Show More
<p><!-- wp:paragraph --></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/shishirmehrotra">Shishir Mehrotra</a> is the Founder & CEO @ <a href= "https://coda.io/">Coda</a>, the startup that brings all of your words and data into a flexible all-in-one doc. To date, Shishir has raised over $140 ... Show More
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://twitter.com/MGCardamone">Michael Cardamone</a> is the Managing Director of</span> <a href= "http://acceleprise.vc/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Acceleprise</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, a SaaS focused accele ... Show More
