engineering

“The part of engineering that's transferable to investing and both looking at investments and also managing in an investment portfolio is the problem solving part.”

“The second thing that you want to think about from an org structure perspective is tie-breaking. Where do you want the decisions to be made? So for example, if you want decisions between product and engineering to be made by you, then both functions should rep…”

“If anything, it may be harder than engineering to really do sales properly.”

“It's called Accelerate. It's a book about engineering and DevOps, but it's very readable by any non-technical people. And that's the first book that gave me the answer on how to measure engineering in a tech company, because that's actually one of the hardest …”

“Growth does not mean one thing. As we've talked through, you have to understand the different types of growth systems out there, the ones that work with what types of businesses, and then how do you map talent metrics in other things to those systems. And so I…”

“I also think marketing is not that complicated. I mean, it's not like engineering where, you know, our VP of engineering, he has so much deep, deep, deep knowledge in the domain. I just don't believe it's that way for marketing. I think people overly complex i…”

“Every category that I know of outside of engineering and product is at existential risk of shrinking seats.”

“I think that in a world where engineering is commoditized, and design for the most part is commoditized, the most important thing becomes excellent QA, we can talk about later, and customer acquisition.”