Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 366 | Heather Wilde - Natural Leader
Guest:
Heather Wilde talks with Dave Rael about values, culture, leadership, speaking in front of crowds, and building great products
Heather Wilde is CTO of ROCeteer, and is also known as the “Unicorn Whisperer” due to her special focus on entrepreneurs. She is a personal and professional growth expert, executive coach, author, and speaker. As a founding employee of Evernote, she oversaw the company’s growth from thousands to 100,000,000 customers. Among her other awards, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid selected her for a commendation for her work in increasing STEM education. Wilde's writing as a columnist for Inc and Forbes spans social media, entrepreneurialism, startups, leadership, fundraising, and diversity issues. She currently lives in Las Vegas, NV.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Heather Wilde
- - Heather's work at Evernote
- - Heather, the conference speaker
- - Moving from being a developer into leadership
- - How Heather got started in software
- - The nature of the CTO role
- - Heather on culture
- - Heather's story of failure - building a game product without a significant total addressable audience
- - Heather on entrepreneurship and the viability of businesses
- - Heather's book recommendations
- - ROCeteer and Heather's experiences as a fractional CTO
- - The things that have Heather most excited
- - Heather's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Heather
Resources:
Heather's book recommendation:
- Code Name Ginger: The Story Behind Segway and Dean Kamen's Quest to Invent a New World - Steve Kemper
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't - Jim Collins
- Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us - Seth Godin
- Foundation - Isaac Asimov
- The Foundation Trilogy (Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation), The Stars, Like Dust; The Naked Sun; I, Robot - Isaac Asimov
- Ray Bradbury
- Neil Gaiman
- H. G. Wells
- Ready Player One: A Novel - Ernest Cline
- The Minority Report and Other Classic Stories By Philip K. Dick - Philip K. Dick
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams - Philip K. Dick
- Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams
- Wool - Hugh Howey
Heather's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Always think from someone else's perspective
- Make sure what you do has benefit beyond the now
- Pay attention to the world around you
