Ralph Goody
Co-founder & CTO, TigerEye. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Ralph Gootee is the co-founder and former CTO of PlanGrid, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2018. He previously worked as a graphics software engineer at Pixar and later co-founded TigerEye.
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Everything Ralph Goody said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Gootee: PlanGrid is used on most California hospitals and tech campuses
“Plain Grid's used to build all, ah, in California, most, most hospitals, most jails, most heavy civil road work were used on all the tech campuses, all of the different government buildings that go up.”
Gootee: PlanGrid built the first mobile blueprint viewer
“Used some off-the-shelf computer graphics knowledge to write the first Blueprint viewer that ever ran on mobile.”
Gootee: Startups should architect systems one year ahead, not three
“We always try to balance it between engineering, like, a year ahead of time, but not maybe three years ahead of time, which is a trade-off.”
Gootee: Non-technical co-founders make excellent early QA testers
“If you've got someone that's really non-technical, and I'm not saying my co-founder is really non-technical. I'm sure she can use a computer. But you know, if it's really non-technical, this is an amazing testing opportunity for you. I mean, I remember I would…”
Gootee: Managing contractors often requires more founder time than full-time employees
“Management of contractors is significant time for you as a founder. That is not a free hire. It's sometimes is worse. Actually, it's more management time. For a contractor than a full-time employee.”
Gootee: PlanGrid would have built faster by hiring developers earlier instead of self-coding
“Probably the best advice I could give though is I'd stop Coding a little bit earlier, and I would start hiring a little bit earlier, because I think there's a lot of me that wanted to passionately write those features, and if I had instead been passionately hi…”
Gootee: Putting CTOs directly in front of users is the most powerful alignment tool
“Get them in front of the users. Bring them to the meetings. Get them over the phone. Well, then give the questions, you know, kind of set it up a little bit where you're trying to bait the users into giving the feedback that you're looking for, or you won't ge…”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ralph's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
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 Y COMBINATORLEDGER | Co-founder & CTO, TigerEye | 1 | 7 | 0% 0/1 | full record on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast → |