Startups
From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known
Monday Nov 17 / 11:45AM PST
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
Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST
Startups are the harshest environments for engineers. Limited time, resources, and energy force teams to make decisions under pressure — and those decisions can determine whether a company survives or stalls.
David Gudeman
Co-Founder and CTO @Velocity AI
The Future of Engineering: Mindsets That Matter When Code Isn’t Enough
Monday Nov 17 / 02:45PM PST
Since the first compiler, software has been a stack of human-friendly abstractions translated into machine instructions. The engineers who understood at least some of what was going on under the hood were essential—indispensable even. But now?
Ben Greene
4X Founding CTO, Co-Founder and CTO @Tessi, Co-Creator of FreeFormula.Exchange, CTO-in-Residence at Techstars Boston