Tucker poached Social Snowball CTO directly from his largest legacy competitor
Noah Tucker · Episode 774 | How a Non-Technical Founder Bootstrapped to Million... · May 13, 2025 · at 32:15
Noah Tucker discusses recruiting his CTO from Social Snowball's main competitor after cold-messaging engineering leaders on LinkedIn.
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“He was the VP of engineering. The only reason he wasn't the CTO is because there was a technical founder there. So really like the top engineering leader at literally our biggest legacy direct competitor that happens to also use our exact tech stack. He joined, he was the third engineering hire there and he exited during their series B when they had like 200 or 300 engineers. He built the whole org. He knew his stuff. He knew the product. He knew the space. He knew how to build a team. He knew everything. And we got along super well. And he was super excited to join and he joined. And then when he joined, he brought on a lot of like the top engineers that he worked with at this competitor as well.”
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