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