How to Build an Engineering Culture Before You Have an Engineering Team

From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup

As a college sophomore, Trisha Ballakur founded Pointz, coding day and night to evolve from a dorm-room developer to CTO, securing VC funding while prioritizing the startup over classes.

Trisha Ballakur

Co-Founder and CEO @Pointz, Forbes 30 Under 30 2025, Previously @Techstars and @Adobe

From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

The Technical Leadership Challenge: Every successful engineering team faces the same inflection point: transforming beloved internal tools into a legitimate platform business.

Gonzalo (Glo) Maldonado

CTO & Cofounder of @Mocksi.ai, Staff Platform Engineer Turned Startup Founder, Turns Developer Platforms into Products, Temporal & MCP Fanatic

The First 1,000 Users: Architecting for a Future You Can't Predict

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The First 100 Days of Code: What to Build, What to Buy, and What to Borrow

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