Geeks Who Lead Podcast
By Peter Bell
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Hear the inside stories of the "geeks who lead at scale" - Directors, VPs and CTOs running software engineering orgs at larger companies with 100+ engineers, and interviews with domain experts who can help those leaders to manage their engineering orgs more effectively.
I'm your host - Peter Bell, I've been helping senior engineering leaders to connect with and learn from their peers since 2010!
This podcast is designed for engineering leaders who want to learn the latest good practices from their peers who are way too busy operating to write an article or publish a book!
Running a software engineering org at scale is hard! You need to manage stakeholder expectations, attract and retain top talent, align and structure your org effectively and keep up with the latest processes and tooling. And that's before we even try to make sense of the potential impact of LLMs and GenAI on managing technical teams.
Our podcast and weekly newsletter provide you with access to hard-won wisdom from top engineering leaders and relevant domain experts. Learn more at https://geekswholead.com/
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Performance Management at Indeed
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Allison McMillan - Making offsites meaningful
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Paul Zhang - Town halls - influence at scale
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Aviv Ben-Yosef - Accelerating Developer Growth
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Rukmini Reddy - Leading with Empathy During Change
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Kit Colbert - From intern to CTO - lessons learned
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Jeremiah Stone - Choosing the right level of abstraction
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Josh Builder - Creating a compelling engineering brand
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Albert Wenger - Preparing for LLMs
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Raji Subramanian - The three stages of value creation
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Aug 25, 2023 |
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Yoav Grossman - Adding LLMs to your product - a case study
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Aug 18, 2023 |
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Mike Boufford - Creating an AI Strategy
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Aug 11, 2023 |
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Gayatri Iyengar - The Art of Storytelling for Managing Stakeholder Relationships
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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James Turnbull - Trimming your operating costs
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Mona Soni - Why the grand hybrid experiment is going to fail!
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Jul 21, 2023 |
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Matt Welsh - LLMs for engineering teams - a practical guide
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Jul 14, 2023 |
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Mission Driven - Josh Nesbit: Founding Member, Widespread Care
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Mission Driven - Jim O’Leary: VP of Engineering, Signal
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Mission Driven - Sam Quigley: CEO, Kicho Inc
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Mission Driven - Max Roser: Researcher at University of Oxford / Founder & Director of Our World In Data
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Peter Bell - Refocusing the business and the podcast
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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Mission Driven - Laura Edelson: Postdoctoral Researcher / Co-Founder, NYU / Cyber Security for Democracy Project
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Jason Wodicka - Interviewing for culture
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Mission Driven - Fred Diego: Co-Founder & CTO, Streetwide
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Jason Wodicka - Building a structured interview process
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Mission Driven - Adam Kircher: Co-Founder, Sirum
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Hilary Mason - Can they do the work?
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Mission Driven - Ariel Ekblaw: CEO, Aurelia
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Jesse White - Lessons learned from burnout
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Mission Driven - Nellwyn Thomas: CTO, Democratic National Committee
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Raffi Krikorian - Introducing Mission Driven
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Ron Lichty - The multiple levels of engineering management
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Matt Powell - Aligning annual planning with agile teams
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Matt Stephenson - Diversifying your engineering pipeline through internships
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Maher Saba - Remote Presence at Meta
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Francisco Larrain - Hiring multifaceted engineers
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Steven Gaffney - Essential elements of a consistently high achieving team
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Vidal Graupera - Challenges of being an engineering manager
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Griffin Caprio - Career progression as an engineering leader
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Mark Porter - Exercising Judgement
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Jeremy Johnson - Building a truly global, distributed engineering team
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Ravi Mayuram - Modernizing your data infrastructure
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Mindaugas Mozūras - Mental health for engineering leaders
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Ismael Peinado - Simplifying Security
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Randy Kern - Bringing quality to your technology and your teams
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Jul 28, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Ami Luttwak - The Scalable Startup
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Arunava Bag - Beyond DevOps - the promise of AI Ops
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Satish Jayanthi - The CTOs guide to trends in data analytics
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Juan Pablo Buriticá - Building global teams
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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Short Byte: On Freund - What skills do your developers really need?!
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Joris Dries - Growing vs hiring leaders: a case study
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Short Byte: James Kenigsberg - Run, grow, transform
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Dave Mangot - Architecture matters, technology doesn’t
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Jon Williams - Planning for failure
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May 26, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Doron Grinstein - Moving towards a Netflix grade cloud maturity
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May 19, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Gary Davis - Improving your interview process
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May 12, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Joe Lynch - How to grow the leaders within your org
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May 05, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Michael Stahnke - A deep dive into the “four core metrics”. And “what’s next”?!
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Mark Birch - Selling as a CTO
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Colleen Tartow - Building and managing a Hybrid team at Starburst Data
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie - Good and bad reasons to reorg
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Frederic Rivain - Building products with privacy and security in mind
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Kimberly Wiefling - Overcoming the pandemic of disengaged employees and dysfunctional organizations
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Mike Boufford - Making “distributed” work at Greenhouse
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Jonathan Moore - Culture and the mental health of your team
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Christine Spang - Multivariate optimization while scaling - beyond just gender balance
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Erik Peterson - Managing cloud costs
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Dan Langevin - Building an engineering culture of accountability and curiosity
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Mark Van de Wiel - Managing an engineering team through an acquisition
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Short Byte: Marko Gargenta - Tech enablement - the hard part of developer education
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Dec 30, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Ramana Satyavarapu - Engineering management vs leadership
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Dec 23, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Ron Lichty - Starting a new engineering leadership role
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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Short Byte: David Subar - How to choose a CTO coach
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Joe Bradley - Leveraging conversational AI
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Claudius Mbemba - Sustaining culture within a remote-first team
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Labhesh Patel - Diversity, Inclusion and Bias in AI Systems
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Charlie Reverte - Retaining your team during the 'great resignation'
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Jossie Haines - Empathy and Inclusion in Engineering Leadership
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Ben John - Managing engineering at scale
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Anne Lise Waal - Gaming the enterprise
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Colin Earl - How and why CTOs should engage with no-code tools
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Sep 23, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Mark Reese - Starting from somewhere else
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Adam Sypniewski - Going against the flow
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Aug 26, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Anurag Gupta - The importance of automating production ops
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Aug 12, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Rob Zuber - Being an executive first
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Tim Olshansky - Managing hybrid remote teams
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Jeff DeVerter - Do you even know what software your company is developing?
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May 20, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Jeffrey Spector - Why you have to improve your hiring process
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Camille Fournier - Managing a product focused engineering org
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Mar 11, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Mai Irie - What to do when your engineering leader leaves
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Feb 25, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Lee Edwards - How to pick the right tech startup
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Johnny Ray Austin Measuring outcomes vs. inputs
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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Short Byte: James Smith - Building vs buying software
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Heidi WIlliams - Building a startup within a startup
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Short Byte: Juan Pablo Buriticá 12/17/2020 - learning the craft of engineering management
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Dec 17, 2020 |
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Short Byte: Cat Miller 12/3/20
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Using ML/AI to Analyze Your Log Files with Christian Beedgen
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Dec 02, 2020 |
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Using Data Science to Deliver Tangible Business Outcomes with Ian Wong
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Oct 08, 2020 |
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API-First Companies with Paolo Negri
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Globally Distributed Teams vs. Remote Teams with Gustavo Niemeyer
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Sep 24, 2020 |
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Why Building for Flexibility is the New Paradigm with Julien Lemoine
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Sep 17, 2020 |
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Building Robust Commerce Platforms with Justin Dean
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Effective Mentorship in Early Stage Startups with Rob De Feo
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Attracting Great Talent with Ashish Aggarwal
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Why Customer Centricity is Key to Company Culture with Raj Sethuraman
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Growing Individuals on Your Team with Greg Thomas
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Aug 13, 2020 |
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Improving Communication between CEOs and CTOs with David Subar
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Building a Team of 10x Engineers with Fleming Shi
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Jul 30, 2020 |
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How to Build a Data Science Team with Jon Morra
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Jul 23, 2020 |
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What Does a VP of Engineering Do With Alexandra Paredes
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Jul 16, 2020 |
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Tackling Burnout as a CTO with Andy Skipper
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Managing Technical Debt with James Smith
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Jul 02, 2020 |
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How to Enact Change Within a Company with Andrew Fawcett
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Jun 25, 2020 |
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Using Engineering Metrics in a Healthy Way with Dalia Havens
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Jun 18, 2020 |
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A Playbook for Starting a Startup with Bob Friday
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Jun 11, 2020 |
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From Private Company to IPO: Managing through Transformation with Rachana Kumar
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May 28, 2020 |
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Continuous Learning in Engineering with Kwame Thomison
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May 21, 2020 |
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Remote Programming During a Pandemic with Kaj van de Loo
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May 14, 2020 |
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Multiplayer Design and the Future of Work with Kunal Anand
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May 07, 2020 |
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How to Hire 100 Engineers in a Year with Cat Miller
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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10 Mantras for Productive Meetings with Douglas Ferguson
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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Moving to a Cloud Native Architecture with Tolga Tarhan
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Apr 16, 2020 |
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Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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How to Interview Candidates Remotely with Shannon Hogue
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Building and Managing Fully Remote Teams with David Blair
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Making Better Decisions with Denise Iglesias
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Creating a Successful Labs Program with RC Johnson
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Mar 12, 2020 |
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Giving Effective Feedback with Chelsea Troy
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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How to Build an Inclusive Culture with James Turnbull
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Feb 27, 2020 |
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Creating Inclusive Workplaces with Joann Anderson
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Breaking Codes, Designing Jets, and Building Teams with Randy Shoup
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Creating a Better Product using Tactical Empathy with Andrea Goulet
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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Cultivating Cross-Functional Teams with Cai GoGwilt
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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Balancing Coding and Management with Dhruba Borthakur
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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Trust, Delegation and Managing Managers with Raghavendra Prabhu
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Balancing Engineering Craft with Customer and Company Needs with Ryan Graciano
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Jan 09, 2020 |
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Challenges Facing CTOs of Large Organizations with David Schwartz of Ripple
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Jan 02, 2020 |
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How to Build a Culture of Security with Nick Streaker
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Dec 26, 2019 |
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From Engineer to General Manager with Mike Reust
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Dec 19, 2019 |
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Engineering Apprenticeships and Ongoing Education with Andy Britcliffe
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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Transforming Education Through Technology with James Kenigsberg
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Dec 05, 2019 |
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The Importance of Technical Due Diligence with Jason Mongue
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Managing Large Remote Teams with Asana’s Prashant Pandey
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Nov 21, 2019 |
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Balancing Delight and Metrics in Product Design with Adam Nash
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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Staying Immersed in Technology as a Tech Leader with Hector Aguilar
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Nov 07, 2019 |
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Setting Up Infrastructure to Scale with Adam Miller
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Nov 01, 2019 |
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Investing in Your People Pays Dividends with Scott Parker
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Learning and Developing as an Engineering Leader with Stacy Gorelik
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Jun 28, 2019 |
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Attracting and Developing Engineering Talent with Johnny Austin, Engineering Director @ Mapbox
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Jun 22, 2019 |
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Engineering Team Cohesion at Scale with Han Yuan, SVP of Engineering @ Upwork
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May 24, 2019 |
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Building a truly global engineering team with Rebecca Parsons, CTO @ ThoughtWorks
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May 11, 2019 |
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Creative Product Delivery at Scale with Colin Bodell, CTO @ Groupon
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Scaling Leadership in a Growing Tech Organization with Nick Caldwell, Chief Product Officer @ Looker
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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Welcome to the CTO Connection Podcast!
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Mar 07, 2019 |
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Gitcoin — Grow Open Source w. Kevin Owocki / Changelog
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Optimize Your Learning Velocity w. Scott Carleton, Andela
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Jan 01, 2018 |
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Blockchain is like Sriracha. It’s delicious on everything — Clay Collins & Nick Gauthier of Nomics.com
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Dec 01, 2017 |
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Hire for Vigilance & Excellent Practical Judgement — Quin Hoxie w. Swiftype
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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Sustaining Open Source w. Eric Berry, CodeSponsor.io
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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Blockchain Nerdery w. Matt Walters & Rhys Lindmark
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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The primacy of the network & Web 3.0 — Vince Horn & Ryan Oelke of CryptoMind
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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The Ethereum Ecosystem w. Raine Revere, Lead Architect at Prism
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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Ch-ch-changes (Announcements)
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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People First Organizations w. Dave Zwieback
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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Bootstrapped Developers
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Jul 20, 2017 |
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How to CTO w. Kathy Keating
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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How to CTO w. Ed Johnson
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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How to CTO w. Nick Cheever
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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Boulder Startup Week 2017 Dev War Stories
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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How to CTO with Andy Pai, Full Contact
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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AI, Automation, Jobs & The Economy w. Jeff Rose of ThinkTopic
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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Programmable Money w. Piper Merriam
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Jun 01, 2017 |
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Crypto and the Law with EFA Colorado
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May 25, 2017 |
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Understanding People is a Superpower; @rands, VP Engineering at Slack
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May 18, 2017 |
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Engineering Values Roundup
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May 11, 2017 |
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Great Engineering War Stories
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May 04, 2017 |
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Your Startup is a Pirate Ship w. Jack Dietrich & Ryan VanMiddlesworth
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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Advancing Your Career is like Playing Great Chess w. Chris McAvoy
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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Reinventing the Organization w. Dan Kador, CTO of Keen.io
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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Optimize Your Learning Velocity w. Scott Carleton, Andela
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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Building for Massive Scale w. Tim Jenkins, CTO of SendGrid
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Find a Niche and Be The Best w. Courtland Allen of IndieHackers.com
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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People First Organizations w. Dave Zwieback
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Mission Driven Tech w. Zack Bomsta, Owlet
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Scaling the Rocket Ship w. Julia Austin of DigitalOcean
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Mar 02, 2017 |
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Understanding People is a Superpower; @rands, VP Engineering at Slack
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Feb 23, 2017 |
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From Startup CTO to Acquired by Google — Anant Jhingran, CTO @Apigee
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Feb 16, 2017 |
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From Zero to Sphero w. Ian Bernstein, CTO @Sphero
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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Reinventing the Organization w. Dan Kador, CTO of Keen.io
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Building for Massive Scale w. Tim Jenkins, CTO of SendGrid
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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Cross-Training with Sales & Marketing w/ Patrick McKenzie (@patio11)
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Bend the Learning Curve by Consistently Putting Yourself into a Place You’re Uncomfortable — Kathy Keating
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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Hire Engineers that are Smarter Than You Are w. Jud Valeski
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Engineering Values Roundup
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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Advancing Your Career is like Playing Great Chess w. Chris McAvoy
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Great Engineering War Stories
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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Building Successful Distributed Teams – Gevorg Hovsepyan
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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Rethinking Education from First Principles w. Manuel Mattke
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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Quantifying Engineering w. Travis Kimmel of Gitprime
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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Scaling the Rocket Ship w. Julia Austin of DigitalOcean
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Web Security for Startup CTOs w. Andrew Useckas
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Building Teams that create Customer Success w. Ingrid Alongi
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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ZCash ($ZEC) – A blockchain for Privacy with Zooko Wilcox
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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Crossing the Chasm w. Brandon Purcell
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Oct 27, 2016 |