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The human side of world-class engineering leadership | Michael Lopp (Apple, Palantir, Slack)
- ▶ 24:49 Michael Lopp He did a thing called Flickr, and I don't remember the specifics of it, but the moment that you turn in blocking, it turns into this whole political game, because I block you, and you get super mad at me for reasons, and suddenly there's…
How to supercharge your engineering org | Kellan Elliott-McCrea (Adobe, Dropbox)
- ▶ 1:39 Brett Berson Kellen had an illustrious career as an engineering leader so far, building and scaling teams at Etsy, Flickr, and Dropbox, just to name a few.
- ▶ 4:45 Kellan Elliott-McCrea Flickr was very famously a team of 20 people, and we never wanted to get larger than 20, which meant that once people started leaving, we didn't have a lot of resilience, and very quickly, uh, that organization got unhealthy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:01 Kellan Elliott-McCrea and maybe Flickr doesn't feel modern to other people, but you know, to me, you know, we were having to build up storage as a service.
- ▶ 1:10:39 Kellan Elliott-McCrea Haven't talked recently, but there was about 10 years there where John Alspaugh and I were, were working together first at Flickr and then at Etsy.