engineer

also referred to as: engineers

7 statements across 7 episodes · 3 bullish · 0 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2017 by Rebecca Lynn · across every show →

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Jul 13, 2017
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Lynn: 80% of Procter & Gamble marketing staff are engineers
“At Procter & Gamble, the marketing, 80% of the marketing people are engineers, right?”
Rebecca Lynn Jul 13, 2017 ▶ 9:23 VC Fireside Chat // Rebecca Lynn, Canvas Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven)
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Disclosure
The New York Times plans to hire up to 400 product engineers
“But yeah, we're hiring a bunch, and I guess I mean, still in, in the scale of doing, like, product development, that's, it's, that's not a big number, or I guess just to a total of maybe 375 to 400 engineers working on the product.”
Nick Rockwell Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 2:41 Fireside Chat: Nick Rockwell, CTO of The New York Times (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Nov 13, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Volpi: AWS holds an estimated 85% to 90% market share among developers
“If you actually pulled engineers on the street, you'd probably get 85, 90% market share with Amazon. So in my mind, no matter what the government decides on whether they use the Azure cloud or Amazon cloud, Amazon is stratospherically dominant amongst develope…”
Mike Volpi Nov 13, 2019 ▶ 33:06 Fireside Chat: Mike Volpi, General Partner, Index Ventures (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
Jan 22, 2020 positive
Insight
Pomel: Effective technical content requires hiring engineers reporting to engineering
“In the end we ended up hiring full-time engineers who are also interested in journalism, and those people exist and have them basically focus on research and writing and we have a team basically that's built that way. It reports into engineering, it doesn't re…”
Olivier Pomel Jan 22, 2020 ▶ 24:23 Fireside Chat with Olivier Pomel (Founder & CEO of Datadog) and Matt Turck (Partner at FirstMark)
Aug 9, 2023
Insight
Biewald: Technical buyers don't want sales dinners, they just want facts
“Nobody wants to golf or anything. I mean, that's for sure, right? Like, I mean, there's people like a super aggressive salesperson. Some of my salespeople are really competitive. I am actually really competitive myself, but they kind of like suppress it in a w…”
Lukas Biewald Aug 9, 2023 ▶ 42:31 Startup to Industry Standard: Lukas Biewald Explains How W&B Scaled MLOps for OpenAI, NVIDIA & More
Jan 16, 2025
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Chip Huyen: AI engineering requires developers to have stronger product sense
“It requires engineers to have a much, much better product sense.”
Chip Huyen Jan 16, 2025 ▶ 7:25 What You MUST Know About AI Engineering | Chip Huyen, Author of “AI Engineering”
Jul 17, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Misha Laskin: Engineers spend 70% of their time searching information, not coding
“If you actually hover over a shoulder of an engineer at any large organization, or even a startup with a really sizable code base, and you look at what they do, you'll find that a minority of their time is actually spent coding. Like, 70% of the time they're D…”
Misha Laskin Jul 17, 2025 ▶ 11:25 Ex‑DeepMind Researcher Misha Laskin on Enterprise Super‑Intelligence | Reflection AI
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