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Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice

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YC Partner Jared Friedman joins founders Lillian Chou (COO, Second Measure), Diana Hu (CTO, Escher Reality), Calvin French-Owen (CTO, Segment) and Ralph Gootee (CTO, PlanGrid), to talk about what can go right and wrong building technology. Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/ ...more
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Introduction

0:00

About PlainGrid

1:30

About Segment

2:30

About Niantic

3:51

About Second Measure

5:39

Story of Redshift

8:41

Story of AirKid

15:09

How long did it take to build AirKid

19:37

Tradeoff between engineering best practices and security and scalability

22:44

Getting to MVP

26:12

Three Phases of Development

27:13

Security Scalability Engineering

30:44

Engineering Methodologies

34:24

Evolution of Process

36:06

Our Process

38:38

SelfOrganizing

40:26

Deadlines

41:41

Oneonones

43:45

Cofounder Experience

44:49

Technical vs NonTechnical

45:58

Early Engineering Team Structure

47:14

Outsourcing

47:58

Communication

50:46

Hiring

51:53

Tradeoffs

53:50

Audience Questions

56:07

Find Your User Base

57:02

Build 2 or 3 Versions

57:31

Cross Platform Development

58:04

Communication Style

58:39
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice
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2018Oct 10
YC Partner Jared Friedman joins founders Lillian Chou (COO, Second Measure), Diana Hu (CTO, Escher Reality), Calvin French-Owen (CTO, Segment) and Ralph Gootee (CTO, PlanGrid), to talk about what can go right and wrong building technology. Learn more at https://www.startupschool.org/

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