Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JULY 11, 2019

There is an inherent difference between leaders and managers that is often overlooked. While most think that leaders are “born,” Katie Womersley, VP of Engineering at Buffer, disagrees. Katie’s journey into management. Transitioning others into management and bumps along the way. Levels of the career framework.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 8, 2019

In this episode, we’re talking to Amy Phillips and Aaron Randall (CTO of Songkick) about the path from programmer to manager. Progressed, eventually, to leading test teams, and managing testers, and then moving more into agile roles and team coaching. That sort of led me into a wider management role. Episode 15.

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UruIT

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Find out 8 insightful conferences for CTOs that you should attend in 2019. As a CTO of UruIT, a nearshore development agency , I’ve seen first-hand how being a lifelong learner can lead to exciting opportunities for me and for my company. If you’re a CTO, I highly recommend attending a conference for all of the above reasons.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

AUGUST 22, 2019

I am a CTO type. Became a software developer, senior software engineer, engineering manager, and then CTO to a few companies. I know, but I really thought that I was a fantastic CTO. Tell me a little bit about yourself and the work you do with 7CTOs. Ettienne: Thank you. Absolutely. I knew my stuff.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Do you think that’s something that can be developed? When you were growing up, did you think of yourself as a natural leader?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

JANUARY 22, 2020

And I wrote about this in the book, I had this very important meeting with, he was the first engineering manager at Netscape, and then he came over and helped out at my startup for a little while. Do you think that’s something that can be developed? When you were growing up, did you think of yourself as a natural leader?

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 24, 2019

and so like you know as a manager, I have a director who is my boss. As a director, you have a VP or a CTO as your boss. As a CTO you have a CEO as your boss. See, it’s really easy for you as a manager to observe generally how people are working. Everyone is following someone. All your investors. Jason: yeah.

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LaunchDarkly

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Eric Pollman, CTO and co-founder of ClearBrain and one of the original SREs at Google, shared two stories. Then he went on to talk about a zombie haunted pipeline that kept developers awake late into the night. While stories like these can be cringe-worthy, they are invaluable learning experiences. TRANSCRIPT.

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