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Episodes
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Data governance, adversarial testing & more - Essential strategies to scale AI responsibly in a shifting regulatory environment w/ Jim Palmer #210
·49m - 2
A Systems-Level Guide to High-ROI AI Impact w/ Laura Tacho #234
·44m - 3
How Atlassian built Rovo in 6 months: systematizing developer joy, autonomy/ownership, productivity champions & reducing ship time w/ Rajeev Rajan #240
·47m - 4
Platform Engineering's Shift from Tactical 'How' to Strategic Curator & Natural Language as the New Interface Paradigm w/ Miriam Aguirre #233
·44m - 5
Building partnerships w/ complex stakeholders, aligning tech debt w/ business value & decisive vs. thoughtful decision-making #217
·49m - 6
How OpenAI’s engineering org is reshaping teams, roles and workflows w/ Sulman Choudhry #250
·44m - 7
Cultivating product thinking, cross-functional leadership & the future of AI agent infrastructure w/ Jaikumar Ganesh #247
·50m - 8
From localized to systematic speed: How Spotify deploys AI in prototyping, strategy & maintenance w/ Tyson Singer #245
·44m - 9
Rewriting the Engineering Leadership Playbook: An ELC Annual 2025 Preview #229
·23m - 10
Quick Summer Break! Join us @ ELC Annual 2025 (Early Bird Tickets End Soon)
·3m - 11
The evolving velocity playbook, building product taste & exceptional product experiences in the AI era w/ Loïc Houssier #224
·46m - 12
AMD’s unified hardware + software strategy & building an open-source AI ecosystem w/ Anush Elangovan #220
·37m - 13
Specs as the new source of truth, synthetic data as the next wave of defensibility, product vision & decision making frameworks w/ Ruslan Belkin #237
·52m - 14
From developer to builder/system designer, managing AI agents like team members & monday.com’s evolving R&D playbook w/ Daniel Lereya #239
·48m - 15
Brex 3.0: An 18-Month Operational Evolution & the Brex Hacker House “AI Startup within a Startup" experiment w/ James Reggio #236
·46m - 16
The AI Distribution Shift, Navigating PMF Collapse & Building AI-Native EPD Systems w/ Brian Balfour #241
·46m - 17
Grit, the vision bottleneck & building for a future where today’s technical constraints may disappear w/ Chrystal Henke Ball #232
·49m - 18
From Research Lab to Record-Breaking Product: How OpenAI Engineered for Unprecedented Scale w/ Sulman Choudhry, Samir Ahmed & Lawrence Bruhmeller #242
·25m - 19
Influencing without authority: What every engineering leader can learn from security w/ Srinath Kuruvadi #227
·37m - 20
Essential questions & leadership principles to navigate change, fear & uncertainty w/ Rukmini Reddy #214
·46m - 21
Why founders should invest in coaching, communication & leadership mechanisms before you scale w/ James Birchler #248
·51m - 22
Upskilling: practices to improve hiring, storytelling & structuring personal/leadership problems with engineering principles #208
·44m - 23
From early days to IPO: Scaling leadership, enterprise growth, product ownership, & outgrowing your failure modes w/ Jon Hyman #215
·57m - 24
How Box Builds AI Agents, Redefines Technical Vision, and Balances Speed with Security w/ Ben Kus #230
·46m - 25
Changes in engineering management craft, career growth and all hands demos for inspiration and context w/ Lindsey Simon #252
·45m - 26
Career growth for engineering leaders in the AI era: Building your thesis, the “running framework” & developing technical depth w/ Chris Chiu #251
·44m - 27
Scaling from point solutions to a unified, AI-powered product ecosystem w/ Vineeta Puranik #246
·37m - 28
Inside ELC’s 1st Hackathon: Deconstructing the operational playbook, implementation lessons & future of the program w/ James Tyack #244
·33m - 29
What is leadership in the AI Era? w/ Bill Coughran & Bret Reckard #243
·21m - 30
Scaling decision-making, designing eng orgs for speed & scope as underrated leverage w/ Dhruv Parthasarathy #225
·38m - 31
The innovation engine behind Samsara driving real-world impact: compounding feedback loops, data flywheels and embedding engineers in customer problems w/ Kiren Sekar #249
·44m - 32
Building platforms, ecosystems & open-source communities: Lessons from Viam & MongoDB w/ Eliot Horowitz @ Viam #213
·43m - 33
The End-to-End Engineer: How WorkOS Collapsed the Talent Stack for High-Velocity Execution, Ownership & Better Product Decisions w/ Michael Grinich
·45m - 34
Leading across technical domains, strategic deep-dives & applying your skills in new industries w/ Simone Kalmakis #231
·43m - 35
Rapid Prototyping, Lightning Pods & the End of PRDs: Redefining product development & EPD in the age of AI w/ Nissim Lehyani #223
·39m - 36
The Startup Epoch: Rethinking Company Building & Defensibility in an AI World w/ Craig McLuckie #221
·43m - 37
Empowering Teams & Cultivating True Ownership in Engineering Orgs w/ Wade Chambers #218
·45m - 38
Recalibrating leadership priorities, leveraging your time & empowering senior leaders w/ Vinod Marur #216
·40m - 39
Accelerating & upskilling your AI learning journey w/ Maher Hanafi #211
·47m - 40
From architect to AI exec: Scaling leadership, maintaining credibility & effective communication to non-technical execs w/ Prashant Ramarao #222
·44m - 41
Vision-first leadership & reimagining product w/ “Shift Out,” Do-It-as-a-Service & Jobs-to-Be-Done w/ John Amaral #226
·45m - 42
Leading transformation, inspiring vision & empowering teams to operate autonomously w/ Kevin Stewart #212
·48m - 43
Capturing & synthesizing unbiased insights from users, your open source community & yourself w/ James Campbell #209
·44m - 44
The Impossible Job of Managers, Leadership Co-Pilots, Scaling Great Management & Augmenting Human Relationships w/ Jonathan Raymond #235
·52m - 45
Beyond Replication: Building Non-Human Intelligence Through Physical AI w/ Jaime Lien & Rashi Agrawal #238
·24m - 46
Lessons Leading EPD: Mindset, decision-making, 80/20 product strategy & pivoting for leverage/speed w/ Farnaz Azmoodeh #219
·43m - 47
Shifting Eng Leaders to Think Like GMs, Building an AI-Driven Visionary Roadmap & Braze’s Product Health Initiative w/ Jon Hyman #254
CTO John Hyman discusses balancing a mature public company roadmap with visionary AI innovation and a quantitative product health framework.
Apr 7, 2026·49m·2 clips - 48
Leading effectively across company archetypes: product, business and design-led leadership w/ Sebastiano Armeli #253
Hidden gemDiscussion on effective leadership across product-led, business-led, and design-led companies with an engineering leader from Meta.
Mar 31, 2026·40m·2 clips - 49
No New Episode - But We Launched Something New... Introducing the ELC Forum!
The hosts introduce a special feature on MCP and context engines, then promote their new community forum for engineering leaders.
Jun 3, 2025·2m - 50
GTM Insights from Top DevTool companies w/ David Mytton #207
This episode explores AI-powered incident management challenges and dev tools marketing strategies, featuring insights from David Mitten on startup journeys for engineering leaders.
Feb 11, 2025·51m·5 clips - 51
Navigating Rapid Change: Skills to Cultivate Resilience, Adaptability & Creativity in Engineering Teams w/ Melody Meckfessel #206
Melody Meckfessel, CTO at Jasper, discusses how engineering leaders can cultivate resilience, adaptability, and creativity amid rapid AI change.
Feb 4, 2025·41m·3 clips - 52
Building Trust: Strategic humor, bridging communication gaps & enabling your team to do more #205
This episode explores building trust in engineering leadership, featuring insights from global community leaders on scaling communication, using humor strategically, and bridging gaps post-M&A, with a special segment on AI-powered incident management.
Jan 28, 2025·37m·3 clips - 53
Faster iteration & execution: Insights from Google Workspace’s AI product experience journey w/ Anurag Agarwal #204
Anurag Agarwal, VP of Engineering at Google Workspace, discusses AI product experiences, decision-making, and engineering leadership.
Jan 23, 2025·45m - 54
Winning Hearts & Minds: Effective Strategies for Leading Through Change from IC to EM, post M&A and more w/ Kathryn Vandiver #203
This episode discusses strategies for leading through change in tech, including winning hearts and minds during transitions and turnarounds.
Jan 14, 2025·43m - 55
The four modes of coaching & navigating career growth in expanding or contracting companies w/ James Birchler #202
Jan 7, 2025·49m - 56
Unleashing potential in your employees & strategies to grow leadership skills in your org w/ Natalie Glance #201
Dec 17, 2024·42m - 57
Building an AI-first company & interactive AI avatar leadership use-cases w/ Rong Yan #200
Dec 10, 2024·48m - 58
Re-defining & elevating engineering’s strategic role with the business w/ Rajashree Pimpalkhare #199
This episode discusses redefining engineering's relationship with the business, featuring insights from a VP of Engineering at Twilio on elevating engineering's strategic role.
Dec 5, 2024·42m - 59
How engineering leaders can better drive business outcomes & increase alignment between product and engineering w/ Gokul Rajaram #198
Nov 26, 2024·44m - 60
From VPE to CTO - mission-aligned teams, prioritizing company over department outcomes & the power of a “not do” list w/ Ryan Fox #197
Nov 19, 2024·41m - 61
Leading change, navigating career growth & finding inspiration beyond engineering - Live from ELC Annual 2024! #196
Nov 12, 2024·29m - 62
Career growth in today’s market + effective partnerships between engineering & hiring partners - Live from ELC Annual 2024 #195
Nov 5, 2024·30m - 63
Selling your ideas, leveraging curiosity in tough conversations, managing emotions & psychological safety - Live from ELC Annual 2024! #194
Oct 30, 2024·24m - 64
Collaboration & Innovation in the Time of AI w/ Anurag Agarwal & Lizzie Matusov #193
Oct 24, 2024·41m - 65
Collaborative Teams Are More Productive Teams w/ Marcel Weekes & Arquay Harris #192
Oct 15, 2024·41m - 66
Scaling AI for an Immersive 3D Platform with 77 Million Daily Active Users w/ Anupam Singh & Maria Kazandjieva #191
This episode features a discussion on scaling AI infrastructure at Roblox, including model selection and deployment strategies, hosted by the Engineering Leadership Podcast.
Oct 9, 2024·38m - 67
Podcast Break for ELC Annual 2024!
Aug 15, 2024·3m - 68
Connecting bugs & quality to the business bottom line w/ Dave Rhodes #190
Aug 6, 2024·49m - 69
Live from Config 2024! Product-building, leadership & execution lessons behind the launch of Figma’s Dev Mode w/ Marcel Weekes #189
Jul 30, 2024·40m - 70
Tackling All Top 10 Engineering Leadership Challenges w/ Farhan Thawar #188
Jul 23, 2024·41m - 71
Strategic Thinking, Org Design & Aligning Engineering & Business Goals - Tackling the Top 10 Eng Leadership Challenges! #187
Jul 16, 2024·43m - 72
Speed v. Quality, Measuring Productivity & Cross-Functional Relationships - Tackling the Top 10 Eng Leadership Challenges! #186
Jul 9, 2024·42m - 73
Coaching, Influencing, Motivating & Managing Up - Tackling the Top 10 Engineering Leadership Challenges! #185
Jul 2, 2024·43m - 74
The Top 10 Challenges Engineering Leaders Face: A Sneak Peak
Jun 25, 2024·2m - 75
Building scalable hiring processes & systems promoting operational excellence w/ Stephen Poletto #184
Jun 18, 2024·49m - 76
Conscious Career Growth w/ Wade Chambers #183
Jun 11, 2024·1h 1m - 77
Why Engineering Needs a Seat at the Negotiating Table with Melody Hildebrandt #182
This episode discusses tribal knowledge in software systems, MCPs, and a controversial deal structuring approach, with a focus on engineering leadership.
Jun 4, 2024·50m - 78
Working backward from winning & preparing for future tech innovation w/ Evan Welbourne #181
May 28, 2024·44m - 79
Inside ELC Annual 2024: 2 days to recharge, reconnect & empower your growth #180
May 21, 2024·8m - 80
Effective impromptu communication & harnessing team topologies w/ Lakshmi Baskaran #179
May 14, 2024·50m - 81
Balancing technical depth & high-level business strategy w/ Oded Kedem #178
May 7, 2024·41m - 82
Harnessing Professional Strategies & Tech Performance Tools for Personal Growth w/ Chris Cravens #177
Apr 30, 2024·54m - 83
Cold outreach & strategically expanding your business model into services w/ Jon Perl & Scott Wilson @ QA Wolf #176
Apr 23, 2024·54m - 84
Building & leading a combined engineering & security org w/ Mike Hanley #175
Apr 16, 2024·46m - 85
Adaptability in engineering orgs: how management systems, executive priorities & career transitions evolve w/ Cosmin Nicolaescu #174
Apr 9, 2024·42m - 86
“The Third Act” & exploring career paths beyond operational roles w/ Nidhi Gupta #173
Apr 2, 2024·38m - 87
Healthy Tension: GTM & Product/Eng Collaboration at Hundreds of Millions ARR Scale w/ Tido Carriero & Joe Morrissey #172
Mar 26, 2024·43m - 88
Driving innovation at large-scale orgs, translating leadership skills to successfully scale early-stage startups w/ Jeremy Burton #171
Mar 19, 2024·49m - 89
Pivotal Leadership Moments & Career Decision-Making w/ Thuan Pham & Li Fan #170
Mar 12, 2024·44m - 90
The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: Using AI and Design to Maximize Customer Impact w/ Dheeraj Pandey #169
Mar 5, 2024·38m - 91
AI ethics/safety, applying AI to address societal challenges & becoming a board member w/ Lake Dai #168
Feb 27, 2024·52m - 92
Software Dev in 2033 w/ Tara Hernandez, Erik Meijer, and Jocelyn Goldfein #167
Feb 20, 2024·43m - 93
Career visualization, creating a pre-transition thesis & expanding your leadership to lead an entire business unit w/ Prashanthi Padmanabhan #166
Feb 13, 2024·45m - 94
Reinforcing consensus-driven culture, deploying the “inverse Conway maneuver” & the unique principles behind Two Sigma’s engineering culture w/ Matt Greenwood #165
Feb 6, 2024·39m - 95
Unlocking Empowered, Self-Sufficient Teams: A Deep Dive into 'First Team' Strategies w/ Monica Bajaj #164
Jan 30, 2024·37m - 96
Building a culture of experimentation & innovation at massive scale w/ Kristian Lindwall, Pooja Dave & Mark Grey @ Spotify #163
Jan 22, 2024·1h 3m - 97
Move beyond measurement & inspire developer productivity w/ Laura Tacho #162
Jan 16, 2024·41m - 98
Navigating 2024: Engineering management principles to tackle the unknowns & challenges ahead w/ Andrew Lau #161
Jan 9, 2024·36m - 99
Building data engineering teams from scratch & transitioning to a full-scale data function w/ Colleen Tartow #160
Dec 19, 2023·43m - 100
Organizing eng by strategic themes / complete units of value & consensus building to drive velocity w/ Emad Elwany #159
Dec 12, 2023·45m - 101
Rapidly operating early-stage engineering at global scale, mapping eng workflows to personas & pivoting pricing / business models w/ Scott Woody #158
Dec 5, 2023·48m - 102
Becoming a great coach: Practices & principles to help you make a bigger impact on your teams w/ Jill Wetzler #157
Nov 30, 2023·48m - 103
Closing Executive Leadership Skill Gaps: A Portfolio Approach to Career Growth w/ Kathleen Vignos #156
Nov 21, 2023·51m - 104
Scaling yourself ‘down’ as an engineering leader w/ James Everingham #155
Nov 14, 2023·44m - 105
Navigating complex stakeholders, competing interests & gaining buy-in w/ Pete Peterson #154
Nov 7, 2023·48m - 106
Self-advocacy & how to coach your team to be better self-advocates w/ Shailvi Wakhlu #153
This episode discusses self-advocacy strategies for engineering leaders, featuring an interview with Shalvi Wakelu, author of Self-Advocacy, and a sponsored segment on Unblocked's context engine.
Oct 31, 2023·48m - 107
Using GenAI to address cross-functional collaboration challenges & enhance engineering leadership w/ Clemens Mewald #152
Oct 24, 2023·46m - 108
Building teams and culture to navigate catastrophe w/ Ken Pickering #151
Oct 17, 2023·43m - 109
Strategies for creating efficient orgs & getting the most out of your eng team w/ Jamie Tischart #150
Jamie Tishart, CTO at BetterCloud, discusses identifying inefficiencies in engineering orgs and strategies for creating more efficient teams.
Oct 10, 2023·51m - 110
Reduce friction & create better alignment between product & engineering w/ Hubert Palan #149
Oct 5, 2023·45m - 111
Operating in a high-stakes, high-scale environment & implementing “secure by design” w/ Bhawna Singh #148
Oct 3, 2023·42m - 112
Navigating conflict in large-scale orgs w/ competing priorities w/ Ritu Bhargava #147
Sep 19, 2023·38m - 113
Building your security team & tool stack w/ Laura Bell Main #146
Aug 22, 2023·48m - 114
Becoming a better strategic contributor & business leader w/ Jessica McKellar #145
Aug 17, 2023·43m - 115
Make Great Decisions Quickly, the Unscary Way w/ Alamelu Radhakrishnan #144
Aug 10, 2023·46m - 116
Growth Through Transitions w/ Prachi Gupta and Chris Chiu #143
Aug 8, 2023·45m - 117
Turn Your Career into a Rocket w/ Oksana Kubushyna #142
Aug 3, 2023·39m - 118
Making the Transition from Large to Smaller Companies w/ Vinod Marur & Ali Irturk #141
Aug 1, 2023·49m - 119
How Businesses, Creators, and Researchers are Building the “Generative Generation" w/ Mira Murati, Naveen Gavini & Vijay Karunamurthy #140
Jul 28, 2023·49m - 120
Compassionate accountability & accepting conflict w/ Marc Lesser #139
Jul 25, 2023·42m - 121
Leveraging your values as first-principles to shape strategy & decision making in your eng org w/ Ludo Antonov #138
Jul 19, 2023·37m - 122
The Surprising Power of Remote Work: Higher Trust Teams w/ Sarah Milstein #137
Jul 11, 2023·44m - 123
Summer Break 2023 - Back Next Week!
Jul 4, 2023·2m - 124
Career adaptation & meeting the evolving needs of your company w/ Barbara Nelson #136
Jun 27, 2023·44m - 125
Rapid prototyping & developing your product instinct w/ David Crawshaw #135
Jun 20, 2023·41m - 126
Leading beyond domain expertise & laying early-stage security program foundations w/ Matt Spitz #134
Jun 13, 2023·40m - 127
Becoming a more strategic contributor, becoming resilient against AI, & enduring economic downturns w/ Han Yuan #133
Jun 6, 2023·37m - 128
The next evolution to measure & improve developer productivity & experience w/ Abi Noda #132
May 30, 2023·48m - 129
Redefining success and incorporating relational healing practices into eng leadership & product development w/ Tammarrian Rogers #131
May 23, 2023·46m - 130
Maximizing the shift to engineering efficiency w/ Alamelu Radhakrishnan #130
May 16, 2023·42m - 131
Community insights from our Pop-Up Podcast Booth at ELC Annual! #129
Hidden gemLife360 reduced new-service provisioning from six months to two days while retaining its "quality first" standard.
May 10, 2023·1h 31m·2 clips - 132
Adopting a GM mindset & building a resilient business w/ Sandeep Chennakeshu #128
May 2, 2023·42m - 133
Navigating the Acquisition Journey: Insights on Transparent Communication, Team Integration, and Strategic / Operational Shifts w/ Johnny Ray Austin #127
Apr 25, 2023·47m - 134
Eng Founder’s Takeover: Navigating the new fundraising environment, idea-mazing and overcoming pattern-matching bias w/ Lizzie Matusov #126
Apr 18, 2023·51m - 135
Maximizing R&D spend, engineering efficiency & the journey from eng to operations w/ Madalina Tanasie #125
Apr 11, 2023·41m - 136
Navigating Multi-Product Expansion: Leadership & Career Insights from Figma’s CTO, Kris Rasmussen #124
Apr 4, 2023·43m - 137
Rippling's Response to the SVB Collapse: A Story of Leadership, Crisis Management, Clarity and Communication w/ Albert Strasheim #123
Mar 28, 2023·45m - 138
Cost-effective scaling & engineering efficiency w/ Shailesh Kumar #122
Mar 21, 2023·44m - 139
Org specialization dilemmas & operating in regulatory environments w/ Kenny Shin #121
Mar 14, 2023·39m - 140
Resource advocacy, frameworks for saying yes / no, & removing critical points of failure w/ Megan Kacholia #120
Mar 7, 2023·46m - 141
Gaining cross-functional leadership at large & small scale companies & investing in org maturity w/ Bhavini Soneji #119
Feb 28, 2023·41m - 142
Building platforms vs. products & leveraging OODA loops in leadership w/ Oksana Kubushyna #118
Feb 21, 2023·42m - 143
Increasing capacity to win in an economic downturn, cultivating a founder’s mindset & product ownership in engineering w/ Shadi Rostami #117
Feb 14, 2023·51m - 144
Resilience engineering, learning from incidents and unintuitive perspectives on incident analysis w/ John Allspaw #116
Feb 7, 2023·43m - 145
Leading through an economic downturn & bridging the gap between engineering & business w/ Ryan Graciano #115
Jan 31, 2023·48m - 146
Making Bold Decisions and Taking Risks in Your Career w/ Annie Cheng, Claire Hough, Lisa Gelobter & Arezoo Riahi #114
Jan 24, 2023·45m - 147
Becoming A Force Multiplier w/ Cal Henderson & Maria Kazandjieva #113
Jan 17, 2023·41m - 148
Lessons on being deliberate w/ Megan Kacholia #112
Jan 10, 2023·43m - 149
How to do an effective re-org w/ Aaron Erickson & Mike Tria #111
Jan 3, 2023·45m - 150
Engineering Founder’s Takeover: Top-down / Bottoms-up sales strategy, pricing, and enterprise product adoption w/ Abi Noda #110
Dec 20, 2022·51m - 151
Authentic networking, community building, and digital transformation w/ Yvette Pasqua #109
Dec 13, 2022·52m - 152
Building a startup-within-a-startup w/ Heidi Williams #108
Dec 6, 2022·48m - 153
Sustaining multi-phase, long-term tech transformation w/ Paul Dix #107
Nov 29, 2022·43m - 154
Building self-sufficient teams and operating in constrained funding environments w/ Elaine Zhou #106
Nov 22, 2022·45m - 155
Scaling your leadership 10x in 6 years and leading outside your technical depth w/ Claus Moberg #105
Nov 15, 2022·48m - 156
We'll be back releasing new episodes on 11/15
Nov 3, 2022·2m - 157
Leading across different orders of magnitude & high-leverage communication with Kit Colbert #104
Oct 19, 2022·44m - 158
What we’re looking forward to most at ELC Annual 2022
Oct 14, 2022·4m - 159
Reinventing your role and refocusing your team in the face of the unknown w/ Maher Saba #103
Oct 12, 2022·50m - 160
Optimizing the product trio w/ Saumya Bhatnagar #102
Oct 5, 2022·47m - 161
Customer narratives, business fluency & investing in developer experience w/ Marco Argenti #101
Sep 27, 2022·43m - 162
Celebrating 100 episodes - our favorite moments from the Engineering Leadership Podcast so far
Will Larson ranks engineering work by existential risk, durable opportunity, and whether leadership actually values it.
Sep 20, 2022·1h 30m·2 clips - 163
Scaling your leadership to 3x exec roles and transforming your values, systems & habits w/ Vinay Hiremath CTO @ Loom
Sep 13, 2022·53m - 164
Unconscious patterns of human behavior that hold us back w/ Luther Kitahata #98
Sep 6, 2022·46m - 165
The cost of “aspirational mismatches” (and how to avoid them) w/ Lisa Dusseault #97
Aug 30, 2022·47m - 166
Back in 2 Weeks! Patrick’s Getting Married
Aug 16, 2022·2m - 167
Making intentional career decisions w/ Ali Littman & Ali Irturk #96
Aug 9, 2022·44m - 168
Leading through ‘black swan’ events & pivoting AI/ML product strategy w/ Bridget Frey #95
Aug 2, 2022·52m - 169
“Cloud-flation” & preventing runaway cloud costs w/ Leon Kuperman @ Cast.ai #94
Jul 26, 2022·47m - 170
Building your data engineering org w/ Taylor Murphy @ Meltano #93
Jul 19, 2022·45m - 171
Growth & mobile engineering post-strategic transformation w/ Atish Das Sarma & Shannon Ma @ Patreon #92
Jul 12, 2022·40m - 172
Eliminating hierarchy, going direct & removing team friction w/ Greg Czajkowski #91
Jul 5, 2022·33m - 173
Alignment is the key to delivering great products & outcomes w/ Jonathon Hensley #90
Jun 28, 2022·48m - 174
Operational & Organizational Innovation w/ Zhichun Li #89
Jun 21, 2022·44m - 175
From IC to global leadership: career growth as a Technical Advisor w/ William A. Adams #88
Jun 14, 2022·56m - 176
Culture & self-compassion w/ Kevin Eyres #87
Jun 7, 2022·42m - 177
Storytelling and the Art of Public Speaking w/ Arquay Harris #86
May 31, 2022·21m - 178
Mindsets, Skillsets, and Toolsets w/ Sri Shivananda & Joel Beasley #85
May 24, 2022·26m - 179
Engineering Execution is a Strategic Weapon w/ Bill Coughran & Melody Meckfessel #84
May 17, 2022·35m - 180
Building Your Digital Technology Org from the Ground-Up w/ Anshu Narula & Khawaja Shams #83
May 10, 2022·27m - 181
The Evolution of a CTO: How Your Leadership Can Change through Hypergrowth w/ Ryan King & Clarence Chio #82
May 3, 2022·29m - 182
SPECIAL: Pre-seed fundraising, pitching investors & dealing with rejection w/ Aaron Erickson & Brian Guthrie #81
Apr 26, 2022·56m - 183
Special *LIVE* preview of the 2022 ELC Virtual Summit & community-led round tables #80
Apr 12, 2022·59m - 184
Translating engineering to the CEO w/ Andrew Lau and Eli Daniel
Apr 5, 2022·1h 2m - 185
Group coaching, team accountability & ‘next-level’ goals with Joy Dixon #78
Mar 29, 2022·46m - 186
How eng orgs (and careers) evolve through hyper-growth w/ Samir Naik #77
Mar 22, 2022·53m - 187
Hypergrowth, Scaling & Org Design w/ Surabhi Gupta #76
Mar 15, 2022·50m - 188
A Counter-Intuitive Approach to Career Growth & Internal Mobility w/ Tara Ellis #75
Mar 9, 2022·55m - 189
Conflict Optimization with Jordan Adler #74
Mar 1, 2022·45m - 190
Belonging, Retention, & Human-Centered Leadership with Lucius DiPhillips #73
Feb 22, 2022·1h 6m - 191
Why Engineering Needs a Seat at the Negotiating Table with Melody Hildebrandt #72
Feb 15, 2022·52m - 192
“Finding Flow” in Engineering Leadership with Rob Zuber #71
Feb 8, 2022·45m - 193
AI/ML Start-up Trends with Anna Patterson #70
Feb 1, 2022·42m - 194
Surprising Lessons from Sales with Maulie Dass #69
Jan 25, 2022·44m - 195
Transitioning to Crypto with Lewis Tuff, VPE @ Blockchain.com #68
Jan 18, 2022·50m - 196
Building Inclusive Products with Jeremy King #67
Jan 11, 2022·45m - 197
Addressing Burnout in Your Engineering Org with Erica Lockheimer, Sabry Tozin & Lori Allen #66
Jan 4, 2022·48m - 198
Trailer: Our 2022 Season Launches Next Week!
Dec 28, 2021·3m - 199
We'll Be Back January 2022!
Oct 20, 2021·2m - 200
Building Autonomous Teams & Engineering Career Ladders with Sri Viswanath #65
Oct 12, 2021·53m - 201
BONUS: Building Your AI Organization with Maia Brenner
Oct 5, 2021·39m - 202
The Impact of Mentoring & Paying It Forward with Li Fan #64
Oct 5, 2021·47m - 203
Speed vs. Quality with Richard Wong #63
Sep 28, 2021·59m - 204
Changing Priorities & Making Massive Engineering Pivots with Vivian Shen #62
Sep 21, 2021·48m - 205
The “Energy Audit,” Reclaiming Your Time, & Increasing Ownership with Brad Henrickson #61
Sep 14, 2021·49m - 206
Debate! Flat vs. Hierarchical Organizations w/ Farhan Thawar & Jerry Krikheli #60
Sep 7, 2021·33m - 207
Lessons on Hyper-Growth & Scaling w/ David Singleton & Bill Coughran #59
Aug 31, 2021·31m - 208
BONUS: Internal mobility, mission-driven decisions, & self-service infrastructure w/ Guillermo Fisher
Aug 24, 2021·31m - 209
Build or Buy: Scaling Through Acquisitions & Ownership w/ Marianna Tessel & Aileen Lee #58
Aug 24, 2021·28m - 210
Productivity Practices to Scale Your Time & Mind w/ Ashton Kutcher & Ryan Petersen #57
Aug 17, 2021·28m - 211
Strategies for Closing Engineering Candidates with Darian Shimy #56
Aug 12, 2021·31m - 212
Technical Interview Tips for Effective Communication w/ Lusen Mendel & Rohit Grover #55
Aug 11, 2021·27m - 213
Strategies to Tend, Feed & Grow your Professional Network w/ Dan Portillo & Jim Cook #54
Aug 10, 2021·31m - 214
Compensation Mindset & Strategy with Thanh Nguyen & Cyrus F #53
Aug 3, 2021·27m - 215
Attracting Top Talent & Engineering Branding w/ Cosmin Nicolaescu, Kris Rasmussen, Brad Henrickson & Sam Wholley #52
Aug 3, 2021·25m - 216
Building a Diverse Hiring Pipeline with Ragini Holloway & Gabe Westmaas #51
Jul 27, 2021·30m - 217
Optimizing & Scaling Your Hiring Process w/ Vinithra Varadharajan, Cat Miller & Keng He #50
Jul 27, 2021·29m - 218
Sourcing Engineering Candidates in a Remote World w/ Kah Seng Tay, Shauna Geraghty & Mike Pinkowish #49
Jul 20, 2021·30m - 219
The State of Hiring w/ Maia Josebachvili, Bret Reckard & Erica Lockheimer #48
Jul 20, 2021·43m - 220
Building technology that endures with Melissa Binde #47
Jul 13, 2021·46m - 221
Becoming a site lead, bootstrapping new teams & re-thinking vacation in a pandemic w/ Sarah Clatterbuck #46
Jul 6, 2021·44m - 222
Non-Incremental Career Transitions with Asif Makhani #45
Jun 29, 2021·48m - 223
Summer Break - Back in 2 Weeks!
Jun 15, 2021·1m - 224
“Just Work” with Kim Scott & Trier Bryant #44
Jun 8, 2021·55m - 225
Managing Up with Jan Chong #43
Jun 1, 2021·52m - 226
Reflections on Incidents & Resilience with Nick Rockwell #42
May 25, 2021·42m - 227
Bridging the Gender Gap with Christina Wick #41
May 18, 2021·41m - 228
Unlock Developer Productivity AND Happiness with Allan Leinwand #40
May 11, 2021·44m - 229
Get Your Career Unstuck with Quentin Clark #39
May 4, 2021·47m - 230
Align & Scale Engineering AND Product with Jeremy Henrickson #38
Apr 27, 2021·49m - 231
Navigate Career Pivots with John Kim #37
Apr 20, 2021·49m - 232
Superpowers, Psychological Safety & Empowering Your Team with Tia Caldwell #36
Apr 13, 2021·53m - 233
Parallel Engineering Paths, Culture Building & Co-Founding (part 2) with Viraj Mody & Tom Kleinpeter #35
Apr 6, 2021·45m - 234
Parallel Engineering Paths, Culture Building & Co-Founding (part 1) with Viraj Mody & Tom Kleinpeter #34
Mar 30, 2021·39m - 235
Build Your Personal Board of Directors with Harpaul Sambhi Founder & CEO @ Magical #33
Mar 23, 2021·49m - 236
Ask Powerful Questions with Alexis Rask, Executive Coach & Partner @ Sweat Equity Ventures #32
Mar 16, 2021·56m - 237
How to Lead Large Scale Projects with Wendy Shepperd GVP Engineering @ New Relic #31
Mar 9, 2021·51m - 238
Spend Time On What Matters with Will Larson CTO @ Calm #30
Mar 2, 2021·49m - 239
Remove Fear of Failure From Your Org with Edward Kim Co-Founder & CTO @ Gusto #29
Feb 23, 2021·43m - 240
Trailer: 2021 Season Launches Next Week!
Feb 17, 2021·3m - 241
We'll Be Back in The New Year!
Dec 8, 2020·2m - 242
"The Imperfect Path" with Erica Lockheimer VPE, LinkedIn Learning @ LinkedIn #28
Sep 28, 2020·50m - 243
Leading AI/ML Teams with Craig Martell Head of LyftML @ Lyft #27
Sep 20, 2020·31m - 244
Give Up Control and Expand Your Impact with Maria Latushkin CTO @ Omada Health #26
Sep 13, 2020·48m - 245
Growing Into a VPE - Patterns & Anti-Patterns ft. Cathy Polinsky, Jerry Krikheli, Richard Wong, Erica Lockheimer & Claire Lew #25
Sep 6, 2020·47m - 246
*Bonus* Optimizing Productivity for Remote Engineering Teams with Doug Gaff, VPE @ Zapier & Emma Tang, EM @ Stripe #24
Aug 30, 2020·35m - 247
Optimizing Productivity for Remote Engineering Teams with Doug Gaff, VPE @ Zapier & Emma Tang, EM @ Stripe #23
Aug 30, 2020·40m - 248
How to Become a Startup VPE with Martin Casado, General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz & Sonal Chokshi, Editor in Chief @ Andreessen Horowitz #22
Aug 27, 2020·33m - 249
Conscious Career Growth (part 2) with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds #21
Aug 16, 2020·35m - 250
Conscious Career Growth (part 1) with Wade Chambers, CTO & SVP of Engineering @ Grand Rounds #20
Aug 10, 2020·45m - 251
Operationalizing Values and Principles with Andrew Fong, VP of Infrastructure @ Dropbox #19
Aug 2, 2020·51m - 252
Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 2), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #18
Jul 26, 2020·50m - 253
Building a Successfully "Spiky" Org (Part 1), with Jean-Denis Greze, Head of Engineering @ Plaid #17
Jul 16, 2020·48m - 254
The Value of Being Direct with Eisar Lipkovitz, EVP of Engineering @ Lyft #16
Jul 9, 2020·42m - 255
Operating under High Pressure with Vidhya Srinivasan, VP/GM @ Google Ads #15
Jul 2, 2020·44m - 256
Part 2 - Coaching, Delegation and Trust with Darian Shimy, Engineering Lead @ Square #14
Jun 25, 2020·44m - 257
Part 1 - Coaching, Delegation and Trust with Darian Shimy, Engineering Lead @ Square #13
Jun 18, 2020·37m - 258
Leading Through Uncertainty with David Silverman #12
May 22, 2020·57m - 259
Managing Remotely: How to Give Critical Feedback Effectively with Jonathan Raymond #11
May 14, 2020·57m - 260
Speed & Creativity in Recruiting with Farhan Thawar, VP Engineering @ Shopify #10
May 8, 2020·56m - 261
The Role of Engineering Leaders in Recruiting with Aditya Agarwal former CTO @ Dropbox & Dan Portillo Talent Partner @ Greylock #8
Apr 28, 2020·31m - 262
Technology, Leadership, & Opportunity with Max Levchin, former CTO @ PayPal & Ben Jun, CEO @ HVF Labs #9
Apr 28, 2020·32m - 263
How to Tackle (Organizational) Debt with Jonathan Raymond, Founder & CEO @ Refound #6
Apr 28, 2020·27m - 264
Zooming Out From Engineering: featuring Alyssa Henry, Head of Seller & Developer Business Units @ Square & Chanda Dharap, VP of Engineering @ NodeSource #7
Apr 28, 2020·23m - 265
Leadership Principles for Remote Teams (and All) with Jason Warner, CTO @ Github #5
Jason Warner argues that micromanagers lack scalable processes, decision-making structures, and the ability to do their jobs fully.
Apr 19, 2020·1h 13m·2 clips - 266
Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies with Reid Hoffman Co-Founder of LinkedIn, Partner @ Greylock & Sarah Guo, General Partner @ Greylock Partners #3
Mar 6, 2020·44m - 267
The Meaning Revolution with Fred Kofman Advisor, Leadership Development @ Google #4
Mar 6, 2020·52m - 268
Managing Creative Teams with James Everingham, Head of Engineering, Calibra @ Facebook #2
Mar 6, 2020·27m - 269
Mastering Difficult Conversations With Sarah Clatterbuck, Director of Engineering @ Google #1
Mar 5, 2020·23m