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Alex Roeder

General Partner and Managing Director, Moxxie Ventures. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Alex Roetter served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Twitter, scaling the organization to over 2,000 engineers and growing the ads platform to $2.5 billion in annual revenue. He later served as President of eVTOL aircraft company Kitty Hawk and was featured in the documentary The Social Dilemma.

What they said3 Shows1

Everything Alex Roeder said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

a16z Insight

Roeder: Unfocused technical advisory board meetings impose productivity taxes on engineers

“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…”

Alex Roeder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 13:24 a16z Podcast | Building the Right Technical Advisory Board

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Roeder: Technical advisory boards work best with informal, real-time problem solving

“I think the best arrangements are when The company's just super, not too formal about it, just really honest about what they're, instead of, oh, I have a technical advisory board meeting next week, oh shoot, like I have to think of an agenda, and now it's a to…”

Alex Roeder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 29:43 a16z Podcast | Building the Right Technical Advisory Board

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Roeder: Evaluate potential technical advisors by presenting real company problems

“Giving, you know, giving real problems that you're working on is, is one of the better ways to understand, get real signal from people, so I would just talk about where the company is, why you're putting it together, some of the things you're grappling with, a…”

Alex Roeder Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 20:14 a16z Podcast | Building the Right Technical Advisory Board

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Alex's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
a16zLEDGER	General Partner and Managing Director, Moxxie Ventures	1	3	—	full record on the a16z Podcast →