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“When you start getting beyond a handful of people, I think some of the magic numbers were kind of crossing 10 people, crossing more than 15 engineers. Things start to break, particularly related to communication patterns, and it starts to become a different ki…”

“There's a five to one ratio of job openings for engineers to engineers that actually exist.”

“The timing as to why is it today that we're going to see more masters and PhD engineering degrees at the CEO helm of companies than MBAs is because of those things. And it's taken a while for engineers like myself to build out positions in the venture capital …”

“R&D is 250 K fully loaded per scientist, per engineer, per year.”

“And they have like, what, 35% of the college graduates and China are engineers. That number in the U.S. Is like five”

“I think if that continues to happen across the industry, we're going to break the social contract between, you know, companies and employees and end up with a situation where, you know, every engineer is hiring a lawyer to negotiate their employment agreement …”

“Yeah, and it gets to a fundamental question around the DNA of the engineering team and of the specific engineers, because growth by its nature is about experimentation. And so often you're writing throwaway code, something that isn't really like robust and pro…”

“First of all, I believe that some of the initial product reviews should only be with the product and design team. Engineers are really there to discuss the cost of something, but how can you reconcile the cost of something while you're actually first starting …”

“I think you can start with engine. Like I, I've talked to great companies who have started growth with a single engineer. If you really define a core. Metric that you want that engineer to move.”

“If you're just using your engineers to code, you're only getting about half their value.”

“Realistically, once you get past about 25, 30 engineers, a founder is saying like, I, or the teams are saying, I can't get enough time with the founder.”

“You can't have control and tell a journalist, I want you to write this or that, because I actually will rub them in an incredibly the wrong way, much like when you're working with an engineer and you tell them like, here's the solution I want you to build vers…”

“Our engineers only have to come in the office 10 days a quarter.”

“You know, you need to take them down your mental travel because you're not, well, you might be stupid, but you probably have a point of view of why this is the right thing. And you need them to discover that.”

“Whether you're talking to engineers, engineers have to believe, right? Otherwise, they're just not gonna have the same velocities.”

“Leveraging engineers to build quasi-products, to build let's say, demand gen, drive people to the product that is different, so have people build something which is a quasi-product, That works really well, especially for technical audiences, right?”

“If you're lucky enough to have a really good product, let's put aside those that have like a bad product. We have a truly good product that is useful. You have an incentive to have a free plan, a startup plan, whatever you want to call it, because engineers We…”

“Our product org got much too large, and I've learned that having more engineers is better than having more people in product.”

“Most of these issue tracking tools go for PMs first. Right. It's like, you're the manager, you're the planner, you're planning the development, the roadmap, the cycle, all this kind of stuff. That's the target customer. And the fact that they kind of flipped t…”

“Cause every one of these great growth people started as an SEO person or an analyst or a content marketer. And just learned and grew, or an engineer, and just learned and grew very quickly.”

“If you sort of, if you go too fast and you say bifurcate those roles, and let's say that engineers never talk to customers and all of a sudden you lose all that magic and it probably makes you less efficient.”

“A lot of engineers actually are different. They probably have an opinion or whatever you said right away, but they spend a lot of time thinking through what they're going to say before they say it. And for like an extroverted dude who talks all the time, that'…”

“Many, maybe even most of our good product ideas come from our engineers and come from them prototyping.”

“And so we would actually even fly engineers out to training centers all around the world to literally observe how. People are using the labeling products and, you know, different scale products, and prototype and build right there.”

“The only advice I gave to this particular CEO is immediate, like he was hybrid. So I said to force a hundred percent of people returned to office in 30 days and let everyone go, except your S tier engineers, letting them all go. Because you don't need them.”

“So I think we're focused on the former. We're focused on the former and a consequence of that is the latter, right? Because the technology underneath is capable of doing that, but the focus is definitely the former.”

“I think what is likely to happen is there is clear work definitions of what an engineer does today, what a product manager does, and what a designer does. I think these are going to converge way more than what's happening today in technology organizations.”

“We'll have more, but a lot less than we thought we would add. So, so in other words, we'll gradually grow, but I think the productivity gains from these engineers will be massive.”

“And that transparency that I had around what I was doing, and they, I developed credibility with them, even though sometimes what I said was not always right, because I'm not this database expert, it made, made this relationship with these engineers strong, an…”

“More. I just think the definition of, like, what is an engineer even will broaden, but I think we, if an engineer is somebody who builds things, and I would kind of argue that that's the beauty of engineering. That's what I love in engineering. I think that is…”

“I believe we will need more engineers than ever.”

“If you think about what's happening with AI native or engineers today, they have to be really imaginative. They have to be product people. They don't have to know how to write code, but they have to be able to audit code”

“If we get, as we get more productive, we do more things, we're gonna hire more engineers. We're not gonna hire less engineers.”

“Engineers. For sure. Because the models they change all the time, they get better all the time, but if you have really good engineers, you can build a system that exponentially improves, and that's worth a lot more.”

“The future of software development is where these organizations, instead of having engineers, That build the software. They're going to have engineers that build the factories that build their software.”

“I think it would be ill-advised if they were to try and go to the niche of non-technical people writing code for code sake, because I think that is going to be run by, like, if you're going to need enterprise controls over who has access to what databases and …”

“I think, so it's starting to exist more and more, but I think it's kind of this like GM or general manager Like role for someone who used to be an engineer, where basically you own end to end an outcome that is not just a shipped feature, but like a business o…”

“I think it'll land at a hundred grand per engineer equivalent. I think that's what we'll, I think we'll give each of our best engineers A 100,000 dollars of tokens. And in return, we'll cut the size of our dev teams, 30, 40% effectively.”