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Engineering Unexpected Anti-Patterns for Engineering Leaders — Lessons From Stripe, Uber & Carta Will Larson, a veteran engineering leader and the CTO at Carta, holds three conventional engineering management “anti-patterns” up to the light for a closer look. Whenever Will Larson meets up with fellow CTOs or heads of engineering at other startups, he often finds himself having the same conversatio
Engineering The Engineer’s Guide to Career Growth — Advice from My Time at Stripe and Facebook Raylene Yung has spent a decade scaling eng and product teams at Facebook and Stripe. Here's her advice for engineers at every stage of their careers, from IC to org leader. Raylene Yung likes to say that her path into engineering management was in some ways gradual, and in others, a wild ride full of ch
People & Culture 40 Favorite Interview Questions from Some of the Sharpest Folks We Know Given the high-stakes nature of every hire, interviewing chops are always in need of sharpening. We’ve spent the past few months reaching out to some of the most thoughtful company builders in our network to pose a simple question: What’s your favorite interview question to ask and why? Here are the Here at Fi
Product How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit Superhuman founder and CEO Rahul Vohra walks us through the framework his startup used to make product/market fit more actionable, detailing the survey and four-step process that were key to measuring and optimizing it. This article is by Rahul Vohra, the founder and CEO of Superhuman — a startup building the fastest email experienc
Management Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's the secret that's made all the difference for her. Kim Scott, co-founder of Candor, Inc., has built her career around a simple goal: Creating bullshit-free zones where people lov
Product Slack's First Product Manager on How to Make a Firehose of Feedback Useful Kenneth Berger joined Slack at the very beginning and made several critical product decisions. Here's how he leveraged the right feedback to make it happen. When Kenneth Berger joined Slack in June 2014, the company was at the beginning of its much-buzzed-about ascent. As its first product manager, he managed the pr
People & Culture The Story Behind How Pocket Hit 20M Users with 20 People Pocket founder and CEO Nate Weiner on how startups can have an outsized impact with a small team. If save-for-later service Pocket had a spirit animal, it’d be the American field ant. Like the insect, the startup supports that which is many times its own size. It serves its 20 million registered users — who have saved over 2
Management This 90-Day Plan Turns Engineers into Remarkable Managers Twitter's former Director of Engineering shares the plan he uses to transform engineers into successful and happy managers. David Loftesness is now the head of engineering at eero and the co-author of Scaling Teams. There’s an all-too-common cycle in tech these days. Startup avoids management. Founder makes all the decisions. Sta
People & Culture This is How Coursera Competes Against Google and Facebook for the Best Talent As head of engineering at Coursera, John Ciancutti needs to bring on the best talent. Here's his sure-fire formula for making his company competitive. When John Ciancutti joined Netflix in 1999, he joined a team of four engineers. A couple years later, he became an engineering manager — a role he had nev
Product From 0 to $1B - Slack's Founder Shares Their Epic Launch Strategy “HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.” “HELL YEAH WE'RE USING @SlackHQ AT WORK I. LOVE. SLACK.” “Dear @SlackHQ, I love you. Yours, Dan” “@SlackHQ YOU COMPLETE ME” You’ve probably heard about Slack’s exponential growth. And you may have read how the internal-communication platform — now just two years old —
Management Power Up Your Team with Nonviolent Communication Principles Ann Mehl and Jerry Colonna coach startups to communicate more clearly. These are the quick tips they've seen make a huge impact. Why does one startup succeed wildly while another with a similar model and talented team fails miserably? Case studies might highlight the winner’s flexible business model or responsive community mana
Design How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business Airbnb Co-founder Joe Gebbia talks about the true meaning of being scrappy and being willing to do things that don't scale. In 2009, Airbnb was close to going bust. Like so many startups, they had launched but barely anyone noticed. The company’s revenue was flatlined at $200 per week. Split between t
Management Unlocking the Power of Stable Teams with Twitter’s SVP of Engineering Chris Fry, former SVP Engineering at Twitter, talks about how forging strong teams is vital to building a long-lasting company. “One of the most scalable organizations in human history was the Roman army. Its defining unit: The squad — eight guys. The number of guys that could fit in a tent.” This is Twitter Engineeri
Management 70% of Time Could Be Used Better - How the Best CEOs Get the Most Out of Every Day First Round Partner Bill Trenchard on how the best CEOs in tech get the most out of their time. The average tech CEO works about 300 days a year, 14 hours a day. That’s 4,200 hours a year. The stats for most other tech leaders and startup employees aren’t too far off. It sounds like a lot of time, but for
Management Why Yammer Believes the Traditional Engineering Organizational Structure is Dead Yammer VP of Engineering Kris Gale explains why organizational norms are holding us back and what to do about it. Kris Gale, VP of Engineering at Yammer, argues the key to building fast at scale lies in small teams. He explores intricacies of organizational design in engineering and explains how making inte
Product Rap Genius Explains Why Worse is Better Tom Lehman, Co-Founder of Genius, talks about the real value of MVPs and why it's good to build bad sometimes. At 12:30 p.m. on August 19, 2009, Tom Lehman entered the first line of code that would eventually become Rap Genius. By 6:22 p.m. the same day, he finished the first version of the site. It took less than six hours to build something that no
Management How Medium Is Building a New Kind of Company with No Managers Jason Stirman, one of the top minds behind Medium, explains how the company is using holacracy to do more faster and better. Editor's Note: Medium has since changed the way it runs the organization as it's scaled. You can read about how they're approaching management now here. After Ev Williams first started working on Twitte
People & Culture How Stripe Built One of Silicon Valley’s Best Engineering Teams Greg Brockman, the founding engineer at Stripe, talks about how to construct your hiring pipeline to maximize talent. Stripe, the payments company that makes it simple to accept payments on the web has quietly been amassing one of the strongest engineering teams in Silicon Valley. In this First Round Capital CTO Summi
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