Arnie Goldberg
Non-Executive Director, Prosus. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Arnold "Arnie" Goldberg is a technology leader who scaled engineering and product systems across eBay, LinkedIn, Box, and PayPal. He later served as Vice President and General Manager of Payments at Google before taking on board directorship roles.
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Everything Arnie Goldberg said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Goldberg: Technical advisory boards provide unvested outside perspectives on engineering choices
“I needed smart people from the outside that didn't have a lot of vested interest in the solution or weren't going to be there necessarily to deal with the consequences, to just bring some informed opinions from their experience into some tough technical choice…”
Goldberg: Box resolved a six-month engineering debate with one advisory meeting
“Six months went by, and this debate raged within our engineering team, and even as we hired, you know, more senior people to come in, and the debate wouldn't go away. All it took was one formal conversation with, you know, some of the, as I created this archit…”
Goldberg joined Box because its co-founding CTO stopped wanting to manage
“While in my role as VP of engineering for Box trying to scale the company, I had a co-founding CTO that didn't want to manage anymore. That's basically how I got into Box at the very beginning.”
Goldberg: Technical advisory boards should debate decisions, not grant approvals
“It's not to present something and get approval, but it's to debate a point and to debate something that, that is worthwhile enough to, you know, get all these people, high power people from, you know, across the Valley or whatever, into a room together and mak…”
Goldberg: Disband technical advisory boards when actionable problems are lacking
“It's okay to disband these things if they become, it's actually, if people appreciate it, even though the, you know, the people in a room have fun hanging out with each other If there's not real actionable things that have to come out of it, you're wasting eve…”
Box formed customer advisory boards using target CIOs to drive roadmaps
“So at Box, we had both, and they're very, very different. So the audience or the population of your customer advisory board are really what you would expect to sell to, right? So in, in Box's case, it would be the CIOs of big companies across different vertica…”
Goldberg: Box failed to cycle off unproductive advisors due to missing clauses
“And so, you know, what happens if you have vocal advisors, and so this is also where it goes back to the point about refreshing the board every couple of years, because I got advisors on that seemed great on paper, but didn't contribute and so I would have lov…”
Goldberg: Box gave technical advisors equity equivalent to senior engineer packages
“I just gave a stock option package that was equivalent to a seasoned engineer. And, you know, I put my board together pretty early on in Box's life, so it was a, it ended up being a pretty reasonable package at the end of it all. But it was I think a three-yea…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Arnie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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