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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

This post is part of a short series about my experience in the VP of Engineering role at Honeycomb. In February of 2020, I was promoted from Director of Engineering to Honeycomb’s first VP of Engineering. Happily, all these things turned out to be true and are still true to this day.

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Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round

TechCrunch

Other participants in the round include DCM (Kyle Liu), Bling Capital (Ben Ling), and Precursor Ventures (Charles Hudson), as well as angels including Ancestry CEO Deborah Liu, Giphy founder Alex Chung, and Twitter VP of Engineering Nick Caldwell, formerly of Reddit. The idea to return to human curation, not A.I., these days.

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Here’s what’s happening on day 1 of TC Sessions: Mobility

TechCrunch

These smaller, intimate sessions are designed to allow industry experts and attendees the time and forum to get to the heart of various topics across the mobility spectrum. We haven’t even touched on the TC Sessions: Mobility Pitch-off and the early-stage startups you’ll find on our expo floor.

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The Best Product Engineering Org in the World

James Shore

But this isnt a talk about measuring productivity. This is a talk about what you do, as VP of Engineering, when somebody asks for the impossible. turn right] How are you measuring productivity? And, as a fully remote company, we have a lot of flexibility in where we hire. It cant be done. turn left] Im not.

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Chief Technology Officer: Understanding the Main Tech Person In a Company

Altexsoft

In an older organization, this is a C-level executive who investigates the technology trends and implements them within the product in accordance with the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. CTO vs CIO vs VP of Engineering vs Technical director. VP of Engineering – tech team management.

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Meet Sudhir Menon, Ram Venkatesh and Paul Codding – Champions of the Cloudera Hybrid Data Cloud

Cloudera

Sudhir Menon will lead our Engineering and Support teams as our new Chief Product Officer. He has been with Cloudera since early 2020, serving as VP of Engineering – Platforms and then as Corporate VP Hybrid Cloud. Prior to AWS, he spent almost seven years at Hortonworks in product management roles.

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Sharing the success

Lead on Purpose

The word “sharing” is one you won’t find used very often in business. Competition has increased in every market and those who succeed have to spend time, money and effort to win. You need to share your vision of success with others and help them find the desire and drive to succeed. UNLESS you focus on helping other people win.