engineer

“The much better model is for the engineer to have the business skills for the engineer to be a top flight engineer, but also have the business skills to be able to start a company, and then the engineer hires the MBA as, you know, the head of marketing, or the…”

“You guys graduate something like six or 700,000 engineers across the spectrum of engineering every year.”

“So, if you're gonna invite other people in, be really sure that they know why they're there, and I mean, I sit on these things to help. There's really no other reason. Like, it's fun and interesting, and you meet smart people, and you're there to help. So when…”

“The much better model is for the engineer to have the business skills. For the engineer to be a top flight engineer, but also have the business skills to be able to start a company. And then the engineer hires the MBA as, you know, the head of marketing, or th…”

“They'll be like, well, the customers shouldn't need to be sold to, because they should just buy the best product, and then you have this long explanation as to why that doesn't happen, and so we try to say, you know, you don't, just because you're like a maste…”

“We need all of the engineers that are in school now who are not taking those math and science courses, those who have the capability to be engineers to keep our country ahead, to fill the jobs in this country that all of these companies need, and they're havin…”

“The young biologists in my lab will instead pick one design, one embodiment of that design, and they're going to drill down in great detail Over, instead of two weeks, over six weeks. Realize that it didn't work, and then they're going to go and create the nex…”

“The scientist is curious, wants to understand, is looking for discovery. The engineer wants to get it to work, and doesn't necessarily care do they understand how it works, but that it works.”

“You don't change it. You don't just say tomorrow I'm going to be an inventor. Today I'm an engineer. You're usually one or the other.”

“We found that engineers and product managers didn't want to talk to salespeople. They want to talk to growth people.”

“I think it's the case in the Scandinavian countries today that like engineers are like 85% men and nurses are like 85% women.”

“A lot of folks are freezing hiring for engineers because they're getting additional productivity out of the staff they already have, because these large language models through tools like cursor are generating a tremendous amount of code.”

“I think the mistake a lot of, particularly engineers make, is they just don't say what they think when they think it, because they're afraid of hurting someone's feelings, but that's how you save their feelings, because they're used to you.”