engineer

“Engineers typically very, ah, opinionated about product folks, and frequently in a negative way, and so when you go to engineers and say who's the product person you've worked with, who you loved you get pretty meaningful answers.”

“You should think about consuming even these capabilities as a service as opposed to building it yourself because we all know that engineer's core MO is to just build everything themselves unless otherwise guided to.”

“When you start to look at the metrics of a platform, ah, there's incredibly high engagement and incredibly low churn. Ah, if engineers are doing days or weeks or even, even sometimes months of work to install something, it's incredibly unlikely that they're go…”

“I actually think if you don't come from the tech side, it's an advantage because you stay the hell out of the engineer's way.”

“And what happens if you put your growth team in marketing is you won't have any engineers. I've never had met an engineer whose career goal was to work in marketing. Like, no offense, right? It's just, like, not what they want to do. And so, if you have your g…”

“Retool your brain to think of every employee in your company as a lightweight customer success or account executive. What does that mean? It means that engineers, product people, back office folks can be on the phone with customers.”

“We're gonna enter this weird world where the best VCs are gonna make money like we've never seen before, right, and the best engineers, and then, you know, the middle is gonna have no jobs.”

“I actually think engineers are laggards. Not all engineers, but like a lot of engineers are because they're kind of tied to their workflows.”