VP Of Engineering

“The idea that you're going to take somebody who doesn't, who isn't world-class at marketing and make them world-class, and you don't know anything about marketing is a dumb idea. It just doesn't work.”

“I think in a, you know, a, you know, a review of, you know, your VP of engineering, you should be looking at the code that that team shipped.”

“The way to avoid it is three things. One, Well, really two things. Hire and empower strong architects. Too few companies have an independent architect, not the VP of engineering, who keeps an eye on technical debt and the architecture. Critical role to have on…”

“By this point, you're absolutely going to need a VP of engineering. This is somebody who helps the CTO with the actual managing of the organization. You know, it's pretty commonly the case that the co-founder or CTO is chosen because of their technical chops a…”

“Ah, when you hire a VP of marketing, and I've said this to you before, one question, the functional question is, can you do marketing? But that's not the most important question. If he's one of the top five people in the company, The most important question is…”

“The VP of engineering every morning wakes up thinking, do I have the absolute best team? Is my team in the best position to deliver what they need to deliver? It's a people person. Yeah, I'm really thinking about making sure that your engineer's in the righ…”