Podcast appearances and mentions of christine spang

Are you a reluctant CEO? Telling yourself you're not CEO material? What if the story you've been telling yourself is the only thing holding you back from stepping into a powerful new chapter? Christine Spang never set out to become a CEO. As the co-founder and longtime CTO of Nylas, she spent over a decade in the trenches—coding, building, and deeply involved in the work on the ground. But when the time came to lead the company, she said yes... even though she didn't think she fit the mold. In this raw, insightful episode, Christine shares what it really looks like to evolve from hands-on engineer to strategic CEO. We explore the emotional weight of leadership, embracing your unique leadership style, and learning to lead in ambiguity. If you've ever felt like you're not the “right kind” of leader, Christine's journey will challenge and inspire you. "You don't have to be a CEO that looks like X. The company will change around you." — Christine Spang What You'll Learn in This Episode: How to lead when you don't see yourself as a CEO The emotional shift from CTO to CEO Why technical expertise isn't enough—and what to develop instead How introverted leaders can thrive without becoming someone they're not The role of coaching and hobbies (like rock climbing!) in building resilience How to find clarity in the chaos of leadership Advice for aspiring leaders who feel like they're “winging it” Want to go deeper? If this episode resonated with you, consider journaling on this: What story are you telling yourself about the kind of leader you're not? Then ask yourself: What if that story isn't true anymore? **Useful links** Connect with today's guest and sponsor, Christine: Follow Nylas:  Web: https://www.nylas.com/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/nylas Connect with Christine:  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinespang/  X: @spang If you are ready to uplevel your career, get unstuck or you are simply ready to unlock those leadership time-management techniques then join us in my monthly career & leadership coaching program exclusively for women in tech: https://www.tonicollis.com/academy  Catch the show notes, and more details about today's episode here: https://tonicollis.com/episode255  Check us out on Youtube. Join the Leading Women in Tech community in Slack where we discuss all-the-things for women's tech leadership, covering everything from early-career leadership to C-level executives.  

In episode 7 of Platform Builders, Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi dive deep into the world of CRMs and SaaS strategy with Steve Oriola, CEO of Unbounce. Steve shares his insights on the historical shifts in CRM technology, the critical role of data in modern marketing solutions, and his approach to leading companies through significant transitions and acquisitions. Learn how focused product development and a strong company culture can drive success.

In episode 36 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Christine Spang about the past, present, and future of enterprise software, with a particular focus on AI. Spang shares her experiences building Nylas and discusses the practical applications of AI in business, as well as the ethical considerations surrounding its use. Lastly, they explore the social and cultural impact of AI, pondering its effects on human connection and the perception of reality.

In episode 36 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers speaks with Christine Spang about the past, present, and future of enterprise software, with a particular focus on AI. Spang shares her experiences building Nylas and discusses the practical applications of AI in business, as well as the ethical considerations surrounding its use. Lastly, they explore the social and cultural impact of AI, pondering its effects on human connection and the perception of reality.

In episode 6 of Platform Builders, Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi chat with Brad Rigby about Canopy's strategic shift from a niche tax tool to a leading accounting practice management platform. This conversation explores the challenges and triumphs of this major pivot, the nuances of building vertical SaaS, and how Canopy is leveraging AI to streamline workflows and make accounting tech essential.

In episode 5 of Platform Builders, Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi chat with Scott Mitchell, former CTO of Salesloft, about the challenges and triumphs of scaling a high-growth B2B SaaS company. Scott shares his experiences navigating hyper-growth, from tackling critical infrastructure bottlenecks to fostering a culture of adaptability. They also explore the evolution of sales technology and the impact of AI on the future of sales engagement.

In episode 4 of Platform Builders, Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi interview Ray Zhou, co-founder of Affinity, about his journey building the company, the evolution of the SaaS market, and the transformative potential of AI. Ray shares insights on scaling a business, the importance of focusing on the customer's problem, and how SaaS companies can adapt to thrive in an AI-driven future.

In this episode of Platform Builders, Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi chat with Ben Rubin about the evolution of software development, from the early days of the internet to the current age of AI. They discuss the impact of AI on B2B SaaS, the challenges of building platforms in a rapidly changing landscape, and the future of user experience. Ben shares his experiences and insights on how developers and businesses can adapt to thrive in this new era.

In episode 2 of Platform Builders, Jamie Davidson, CEO of Vitally, joins Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi to discuss the evolution of customer success platforms. They explore Vitally's journey from a customer data tool to a comprehensive platform, the strategic decisions behind product development and fundraising, and the impact of AI on the future of customer success. Davidson also shares insights on innovating customer engagement and building a platform that empowers both customer success teams and the wider business.

In this inaugural episode of Platform Builders, hosts Christine Spang and Isaac Nassimi of Nylas welcome Justin Belobaba, Founder and CEO of Nowsite. Justin shares his journey from finance to tech entrepreneurship and offers insights on the importance of failing fast, why startups must be willing to pivot, and how AI is shaping the future of solopreneurship. If you're building a business—or just fascinated by the power of AI—you won't want to miss this conversation.

Building a successful company is rarely a linear journey. For Christine Spang, co-founder and CTO of Nylas, the journey has been marked by significant pivots, bold decisions, and relentless perseverance when scaling the business and raising capital. Nylas has attracted funding from top-tier investors like 8VC, Round13 Capital, Spark Capital, and Formation 8.

Today, on the show we have Christine Spang, Co-founder and CTO of Nylas. Christine was the keynote at the recent Shift Developer Conference in Miami, and we caught up with her there. Nylas is a unified API for email, calendar, and contacts. We talked to Christine about why she started Nylas, and the challenges with building an API for email. Email is this massive distributed system with a very diverse set of implementations, it's a super gnarly ecosystem going back decades. It's generally not something you want to spend a lot of time on if you don't have to. Christine was a lot of fun to have on the show. Follow Christine: https://twitter.com/spang Follow Sean: https://twitter.com/seanfalconer Follow Alex: https://twitter.com/alexbdebrie Nylas: https://www.nylas.com/ Software Huddle ⤵︎ X: https://twitter.com/SoftwareHuddle Substack: https://softwarehuddle.substack.com

In episode 5 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers shares interviews from Heavybit's 2023 DevGuild: AI Summit on October 19th, 2023. This Open Space unconference brought together a community of 200+ to discuss how AI will change the face of software development. This episode features event highlights and insights from industry experts: Christine Spang of Nylas, Heidi Waterhouse of Sym, Paul Biggar of DarkLang, Raiya Kind of Code and Concept, and Seema Patel of Stifel Venture Banking.

In episode 5 of Generationship, Rachel Chalmers shares interviews from Heavybit's 2023 DevGuild: AI Summit on October 19th, 2023. This Open Space unconference brought together a community of 200+ to discuss how AI will change the face of software development. This episode features event highlights and insights from industry experts: Christine Spang of Nylas, Heidi Waterhouse of Sym, Paul Biggar of DarkLang, Raiya Kind of Code and Concept, and Seema Patel of Stifel Venture Banking.

Rick, Noor, and Vernon are left with no choice but to track the enemy to its lair... and one of them's not coming back. Quiet Part Loud, created by Monkeypaw Productions, written by Mac Rogers and Clay McLeod Chapman. Directed by Mimi O'Donnell. Starring Tracy Letts, Nikohl Boosheri, Christina Hendricks, Milly Shapiro, Taran Killam, Krish Marwah, Alfredo Narcisco, Krysta Rodriguez, Ali Louis Bourzgoui, Jasmyne Peck-Bailey, Lauren Silverman, Christine Spang, and Joe Wegner. Executive produced by Jordan Peele, Win Rosenfeld, and Mimi O'Donnell. Produced by Geoff Foster, Amy McLeish, and Katie Pastore. Associate produced by Jasmyne Peck-Bailey, Julie Balefsky, and Kayla Stokes. Supervising Sound Editor Jonathon Roberts. Sound Design by Marcus Bagala, Daniel Brunelle, Shane Hendrickson, and Jonathon Roberts. Score by Roahn Hylton and Jacob Yoffee. Recording by Jonathon Roberts and Armando Serrano. Dialogue editing by Steven Tejeda and Gordon Bramli. Mix and additional sound design by Bobby Lord.  Additional Music by Marcus Bagala. Music Supervision by Liz Fulton. Casting by Karyn Casl and The Telsey Office. Special thanks to the Muslim Public Affairs Council, Jack Mason and Dawn Ostroff.   Quiet Part Loud is a Spotify original audio series and a Monkeypaw and Gimlet production.  Visit spotify.com/qplresources to find out how you can combat disinformation and anti-Muslim hate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christine Span, founder & CTO of Nylas, has evolved over the last decade growing her software company which is essentially like "the plumbing for the internet" connecting code. She talks about how the highs are super high and the lows are super low but that foundation at MIT prepared her for the mental fortitude that she was going to need to lead her team on this journey. "Leadership is work and you have to work at leadership," is a lesson that she learned along the way.  Along the way, she's discovered the power of yoga and rock climbing to challenge her mind as well as calm it.

Christine Spang, founder & CTO of Nylas, has evolved over the last decade growing her software company which is essentially like "the plumbing for the internet" connecting code. She talks about how the highs are super high and the lows are super low but that foundation at MIT prepared her for the mental fortitude that she was going to need to lead her team on this journey. "Leadership is work and you have to work at leadership," is a lesson that she learned along the way.  Along the way, she's discovered the power of yoga and rock climbing to challenge her mind as well as calm it.

Welcome to the Woman in Tech Series from the Global Tech Leaders Podcast. Today we are speaking to Christine Spang who is the co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Nylas. She has had an illustrious career in the corporate world and comes from a development background, she attended MIT and grew out from there creating products. We kick off by asking Christine what drove her to get into becoming a developer, its underserved by women, and what sparked her interest to choose this journey. Born in Canada and her folks were Norweighen immigrants. Her grandmother had a mini farm, where they would farm and build things. She remembers helping her folks build a barn on her grandparent's farm. She was really good at Math at school and moved up north really young. She was into music at her public school and played the french horn and was in the marching band. Always loved reading and got lost in books, her Dad would blast Oprah music. Grew up in the suburbs, there wasn't much to do, so games and books allowed her to explore. That led her to online text-based games and story building. Then she started learning about programming and discovered the world of open-source. Which blew her mind. Came across a blog, joined this group and became obsessed with open source which led to her attending MIT. That's when she knew she wanted to be a software engineer. We then ask Christine, why she thinks there is such a gap in developers in today's society with our demands and which subjects would she advise those who feel a fit for this. Cultivating a mindset of curiosity and questioning things. People should aspire to create an environment where people can choose to get into something without barriers. We need the builders of modern software to represent people all over the world. Try and treat people the same, and support the curiosity of little girls and little boys. Next, we ask Christine if she has experienced bias in her career and if so, what is the one thing she would change? She has trained her mind to believe everyone has good intentions. She has personally been lucky or oblivious to it, if not it drives positive feelings away from herself. We asked Christine to share a positive experience from her career so far. Especially when starting a company, the modern world is all about standing out and being memorable. Over and over again, people remember her because she stood out and was memorable. As a female technical founder, it's easier to bring more women in. We asked Christine to tell us more about Nylas and what they do and what is the purpose. She has been working on this for 9 years and started with 2 people. Now 250 people. Nylas is an API platform company that is focused on communications data and helps people make use of that data and structure it. APIs are leveraged. The core concept is, saving people time. Code literacy is a trend right now. Building a new code native generation. Then we ask Christine, what kind of questions does she ask to prioritize tech projects? Revenue impact is a valid consideration. Pick a focus and define what success looks like. Thinking about performance and scalability. Regarding the 4-degree aspect spoke about earlier, how do we shift the bias and how do you deal with someone who takes a 1-year course? Focus on interviews that simulate what people will actually be working on. You have no reputation or/and no money so harder to be convincing. Lastly, we ask Christine how does she manage her time? She has an Executive Assistant --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gloabl-tech-leaders/message

Christine Spang, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Nylas Christine and her cofounders had to pivot before Nylas became what it is today. She explains how she knew the early idea wouldn't work, what it was like saying goodbye to a cofounder, and how her role as CTO changed over time. Finally, Christine outlines how to level up your career fast at a startup. https://bit.ly/blindpodcast

According to Christine Spang, she is secretly Canadian, being born in Toronto. She moved to Upstate New York when she was 3, and grew up there. She came from a family of engineers and entrepreneurs. After getting into an RPG game based on Lord of the Rings, she had to learn to code, run linux, and fell in love with software. In High School, she was a band geek, and was super into fantasy reading. These days she tends to focus more on hobbies that get her out and moving in the world, specifically rock climbing and plants.Christine was working for a startup that ended up being sold to Oracle. At that point, she was considering what was next for her. The timing was fortuitous, as her friend from MIT was starting up something around extracting information from email.This is the creation story of Nylas.SponsorsImmediateOrbitPostmarkStytchVerb DataWebapp.ioLinksWebsite: https://www.nylas.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinespang/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Back in 2019, Christine gave an awesome talk at our in-person San Francisco summit about how she had built an engineering org of ~30 with a 50:50 gender balance (Male : not male). In this episode, Christine shares what has changed as the organization has scaled to ~300 and her experiences as a first-time ScaleUp founder navigating hypergrowth.PARTNERThanks to our partner CloudZero — Cloud Cost Intelligence Platform. Control cost and drive better decisions with CloudZero cloud cost intelligence. The CloudZero platform provides visibility into cloud spend without the typical pitfalls of legacy cloud cost management tools, like endless tagging or clunky Kubernetes support. Optimize unit economics, decentralize cost data to engineering, and create a shared language between finance and technical teams. CloudZero helps you organize cloud spending better than anyone else.Join companies like Drift, Rapid7, and SeatGeek by visiting cloudzero.com/ctoconnection to get started.

#81: Today we speak with Christine Spang, CTO and co-founder of Nylas. We discuss the problems that Nylas solves for application developers so they don't have to figure out how to integrate with numerous email and calendar providers.   Christine's information: Twitter: https://twitter.com/spang Nylas: https://www.nylas.com/   Transcript: https://www.devopsparadox.com/episodes/making-email-provider-integration-simple-with-nylas-81/#transcript   YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/devopsparadox/   Books and Courses: Catalog, Patterns, And Blueprints https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/catalog/   Kubernetes Chaos Engineering With Chaos Toolkit And Istio https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/chaos/   Canary Deployments To Kubernetes Using Istio and Friends https://www.devopstoolkitseries.com/posts/canary/   Review the podcast on Apple Podcasts: https://www.devopsparadox.com/review-podcast/   Slack: https://www.devopsparadox.com/slack/   Connect with us at: https://www.devopsparadox.com/contact/

In this episode, Christine Spang of Nylas relates the experience of founding an API product company. She gives tips and lessons learned on product strategy, developer experience, and balancing product vision with user feedback.

Brian and Don have worked hard over many years building community for Pythonistas. Wonder how many folks in the Python community knows about Uruguay as a hotbed of Python use. Tryolabs has been slinging Python and ML for the past ten years. Besides helping nearshore customers in the U.S. solve business challenges with AI, Tryolabs spun out a successful startup, MonkeyLearn. Ernesto Rodriguez di Paolo our guest for this episode presented MonkeyLearn for a PyCon Startup Row event hosted by Grace Law and SF Python. MonkeyLearn won over an impressive judging panel to win a place at PyCon Montreal 2015. Judging panel included bethanye McKinney Blount, founder of Compaas; Leah Culver, founder of Breaker; Bebe Chueh, founder of Atrium LTS; Kat Manalac, partner at Y Combinator; and Christine Spang, founder of Nylas.

Starting a technology company and leading product development is a process that is constantly evolving. Christine Spang, CTO of Nylas explained various stages of leading a tech company. We talked about developing software in areas like Email, finding initial clients, and evaluating the product. Christine also talked about the importance of wellness and gave advice on things that she does that have allowed her to focus and succeed in a digital world.

Christine Spang is the Co-Founder and CTO of Nylas. Nylas’ API powers communications in software applications, taking data from 4.5 billion inboxes worldwide and connecting it directly to productivity, sales and marketing apps. Nylas has raised $30M in funding and has 20 engineers across 4 teams. In this episode, we talk about her entrepreneurial journey, building a support network as a founder, and building a diverse team with less bias. For notes and a full transcription of the episode, visit woventeams.com/blog/christine-spang/Special Guest: Christine Spang.

In episode 8 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel are joined by Nylas Co-Founder and CTO Christine Spang to discuss navigating the complex ecosystem of emails and how Nylas has managed to create an API for it.  The post Ep. #8, Email Ecosystems & APIs with Nylas’ Christine Spang appeared first on Heavybit.

In episode 8 of O11ycast, Charity and Rachel are joined by Nylas Co-Founder and CTO Christine Spang to discuss navigating the complex ecosystem of emails and how Nylas has managed to create an API for it.

We talk with Christine Spang of Nylas about building a business with engineers, for engineers, using a modern API platform.If you love The Frontier, we bet you'll love our weekly newsletter, the Wayfarer. You can subscribe here. We promise to make you laugh at least once.Gun.io is only freelancing service that engineers actually use to hire other engineers. Interested in getting in touch? Meet us here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

After her co-founder left the company, Christine Spang (@spang) found herself in a difficult position: deciding what to do with a product that wasn't selling as much as she'd hoped, juggling several different projects competing for her team's time and attention, and rebuilding the team's morale to get the company moving again and foster a great culture. Learn how she overcame the odds to turn Nylas API into a profitable product with over 200 paying customers.Transcript, speaker information, and more: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/070-christine-spang-of-nylas

Matty chats with Nylas CTO Christine Spang

Matty chats with Nylas CTO Christine Spang

Email is one of the oldest methods of communication that is still in use on the internet today. Despite many attempts at building a replacement and predictions of its demise we are sending more email now than ever. Recognizing that the venerable inbox is still an important repository of information, Christine Spang co-founded Nylas to integrate your mail with the rest of your tools, rather than just replacing it. In this episode Christine discusses how Nylas is built, how it is being used, and how she has helped to grow a successful business with a strong focus on diversity and inclusion.

Christine Spang started her tech journey contributing to Debian while still a teenager. She went on to MIT, then worked on Ksplice, helping the Linux kernel stay up-to-date without rebooting. From there working as a Principal Developer at Oracle, Christine when on to co-found Nylas where she's currently the CTO. Scott talks to Christine about her experience, her thoughts on going from Dev to CTO, leading teams, and their product suite at Nylas. https://www.nylas.com/ https://jvns.ca/blog/2017/12/01/new-zine--so-you-want-to-be-a-wizard/