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DECEMBER 17, 2015
Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., For the company, he’s led multiple tech teams focused on products like voice and image search, Google Search for iOS, Google Glass, and Android Wear. NV: What are some basics you’d recommend to anyone hiring an engineer?
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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Depending on the composition of the founding team, you might or might not have near-term holes in certain functions at the exec level – e.g. you’ll most likely need to bring on a CTO/VP of Engineering shortly after the seed round if you don’t have a technical co-founder.
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APRIL 21, 2016
How do you build your engineering/dev team from the ground up? What kind of engineers do you need? What kind of engineers do you need? Now consider a few high-level categories of engineers: Front-End. The best engineers I’ve worked with cross into multiple categories. So this further complicates your search.
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JULY 31, 2014
Typically, these patterns arise out of a combination of approaches by my partners and me: proactive searching for startups in specific categories, reacting to what entrepreneurs pitch, and translating valuable learning from making one investment over to making another. Step-Function Ad Tech.
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APRIL 21, 2015
Joris Poort , Founder and CEO, Rescale (Software platform and hardware infrastructure to perform scientific and engineering simulations; undisclosed capital raised, per CrunchBase): We spent two and a half years writing custom software to run large-scale simulations on Boeing’s data centers.
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OCTOBER 29, 2015
In this episode, we talk to Gabriel Weinberg, co-founder and CEO of the search engine Duck Duck Go and author of the book, Traction , now in its second edition. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher. Can you use a framework and process to gain initial startup traction?
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JANUARY 11, 2018
In our portfolio, Code Climate is a perfect example of this, as its software becomes embedded within an engineering team’s daily workflow. In the end, we look for companies dramatically improving people’s everyday lives first, and then search for startups that design the business model around that transformation. Alignable ).
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